madi

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See also: Madi, Madí, mädi, maḓi, madɨ, and ma⁴³ dɪ³¹

Bikol Central

Etymology

Final clipping of comadre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈdi/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧di

Noun

madí (masculine padi, Basahan spelling ᜋᜇᜒ)

  1. female sponsor at a wedding or baptism
    Synonyms: ninang, komadre

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mardi (“Tuesday”).

Pronunciation

Noun

madi

  1. Tuesday

See also

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic مَادِّيّ (māddiyy).

Adjective

madi

  1. material

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Medieval Byzantine Greek μάτιν (mátin) which is in turn from the Ancient Greek ὀμμάτιον (ommátion), diminutive of ὄμμα (ómma, “eye”). Cognate with Greek μάτι (máti).

Noun

madi n (Greek spelling μάτι, plural madia)

  1. eye

Declension

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Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.

Noun

mâdi

  1. water

Louisiana Creole

Pronunciation

Noun

madi

  1. Alternative form of maddi (“Tuesday”)

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

Noun

madi

  1. blood

Descendants

  • → Phuthi: emalî

Tswana

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

Noun

madi class 6

  1. blood

Etymology 2

Seemingly a wanderwort ultimately from Swahili mali; compare Shona mari, Zulu imali. However, polysemy between "blood" and "money" is common among Khoisan languages, and also found in Bantu in the Kalahari region: Yeyi maropa (“blood, money”), Mbukushu manyinga (“blood, money”).

Noun

madi class 6

  1. money

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV madi
Brazilian standard madi
New Tribes madi

Alternative forms

  • maadi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

Noun

madi

  1. (Caura River dialect) the capped heron, Pilherodius pileatus

Derived terms

References

  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “madi”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎ (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 122
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 393: “[mạ:di] 'small, white heron' […] ma:di - small white heron”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tadāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Also mādi, small white h.; and ahīša, large white h.”
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 36
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