mastyf

• mastif, masty, mastyff, mestyf, maystyf, mestif

From Old French mastin (modern French mâtin), from Vulgar Latin *mansuetinus (“tamed (animal)”), from Latin mansuetus (“tamed”). The final -f is due to influence from Old French mestif; some forms have totally assimilated to that word.

• IPA^(key): /masˈtiːf/, /ˈmastif/

mastyf (plural mastyves or mastyfes)

1. mastiff

• English: mastiff
  • → Welsh: mastiff
• Scots: mastiff

• “mastī̆f, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 March 2019.

Borrowed from English mastiff, from Middle English mastif, mastyf, from Old French mastin, from Vulgar Latin *mansuetinus, from Latin mānsuētus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas.tɘf/

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• Rhymes: -astɘf
• Syllabification: mas‧tyf

mastyf m animal

1. alternative form of mastif

• mastyf in Polish dictionaries at PWN