maty

Uncertain.

maty (plural maties)

1. (archaic) A native house servant in India.
   • 1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India:

     MATY, in the Madras Presidency, a house servant who cleans up

• “maty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

maty

1. Alternative spelling of matey

• may't

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay (“die; dead; sick; tired (of)”), from Proto-Austronesian *ma-aCay (“die; dead; eclipse of sun or moon”), from Proto-Austronesian *aCay (“death”).

maty

1. dead

• maty in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.tɘ/
• Rhymes: -atɘ
• Syllabification: ma‧ty

Back-formation from matka.

maty f

1. (Western Lublin, Ponigwoda) synonym of matka

   Juze stamtąd nie obøcy
   Nawet swojéj maty. (war song)

   He won't ever see from here
   Even his mother.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

maty m animal or m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

maty f

1. inflection of mata:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “maty”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 217