małi
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mali"
Choctaw
[edit]Noun
[edit]małi
- Misspelling of mahli.
Usage notes
[edit]This spelling (with 'ł') was adopted by the editors of Cyrus Byington's comprehensive A dictionary of the Choctaw language for Byington's original mahli. In this word, the 'hl' is not a digraph representing /ɬ/ but a consonant cluster /hl/. Byington had used 'hl' for /ɬ/ before vowels and 'lh' elsewhere, conflating /ɬ/ and /hl/. The editors were unaware Byington's 'hl' represented two distinct sounds as their express purpose for using 'ł' was so that "each consonant has but one sound" (page xi). This spelling is never used outside the dictionary.
Masurian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish mały.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]małi (comparative mnijsÿ, superlative námnijsÿ, derived adverb mało)
- small, little (having a physically not large size)
- little (not many in number)
- little (not old)
- little (of little importance)
- poor; meager; humble (not owning much, not rich)
- little; short (not lasting a long time)
Noun
[edit]małi m pers
- (nominalized) little one; child
- (nominalized) someone unimportant
Further reading
[edit]Categories:
- Choctaw lemmas
- Choctaw nouns
- Choctaw misspellings
- cho:Nature
- Masurian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Masurian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)mel-
- Masurian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Masurian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Masurian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Masurian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Masurian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Masurian terms inherited from Old Polish
- Masurian terms derived from Old Polish
- Masurian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Masurian/awi
- Rhymes:Masurian/awi/2 syllables
- Masurian lemmas
- Masurian adjectives
- Masurian nouns
- Masurian masculine nouns
- Masurian personal nouns
- Masurian nominalized adjectives
- zlw-mas:Children
- zlw-mas:People
- zlw-mas:Size