mažas
Appearance
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mãžas m (feminine mažà, neuter mãža) stress pattern 4
Declension
[edit]Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of mažas
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of mažas
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “mažas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, , →ISBN, page 380