mažas
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *maźas, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”), with an inverted semantic shift from "big" > "small".[1] Cognates include Latvian mazs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmaːʒɐs]
Adjective
mãžas m (feminine mažà, neuter mãža) stress pattern 4
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “mažas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, , →ISBN, page 380