na-más
Macanese
Alternative forms
- namás, na más
Etymology
Univerbation of Portuguese não mais. By surface analysis, nâm + más. Compare Asturian namás, Catalan només, Romanian numai, Spanish nomás.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /naˈmas/, /naˈmaʃ/
Adverb
na-más
- no more
- Unga istánti na-más. ― In no more than an instant.
- only, just
- Iou querê unchinho na-más.
- I only want a tiny bit.
References
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “na más”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 492