მასე

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Georgian

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: მა‧სე

Etymology 1

Adverb

მასე (mase)

  1. so, like that
    მასე განაგრძე კარგი ხარ, უუჰ
    mase ganagrʒe ḳargi xar, uuh
    Go on like that you are good. whee.
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Etymology 2

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *mas- (fishing-net). Cognate with Mingrelian მოსა (mosa), Laz მოსა (mosa, net).

Noun

მასე (mase) (plural მასეები)

  1. (obsolete) (sea-going) fishing net
    Synonym: ბადე (bade)

References

  • Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1685–1716) “მასე”, in S. Iordanišvili, editor, Siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [Collection of Georgian words, that is a dictionary]‎, Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949, page 195
  • Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 116
  • Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 280