mastas

mastas

1. plural of masta

• Asmats, tsamas

Related to mastýti and métyti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *met- (“to throw”). Pokorny proposed Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”) as further etymology.

Cognate with Latvian masts (“casting of a net”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmǎ̤ː.s̪t̪ɐs̪/

mãstas m (plural mãstai) stress pattern 2

1. scale, size, dimension, scope

   Synonyms: mastelis, skalė, dimensija, matmuo

2. volume, capacity

   Synonyms: talpa, apimtis

3. (dialectal) casting of a fishing net

• “mastas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “mastýti”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 715