Sakave

See also: sakāve

Malagasy

Etymology

From earlier *Vesaka ve (literally “big Vaisakha”), from *Vesaka +‎ ve; the first element is ultimately from Sanskrit वैशाख (vaiśākha).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈkave/, [sḁˈkav̥ĕ̥]

Proper noun

Sakave

  1. (dialectal) September
  2. a town in Anosy, Madagascar

References

  1. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, page 724.
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