mažas

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See also: mazas, mazás, and mazās

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *maźas, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (big, great), with an inverted semantic shift from "big" > "small".[1] Cognates include Latvian mazs.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mãžas m (feminine mažà, neuter mãža) stress pattern 4

  1. little, small
  2. diminutive

Declension

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References

  1. ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “mažas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 380