Sakamasay
Malagasy
Etymology
From earlier *Vesaka ve (literally “small Vaisakha”), from *Vesaka + masay; the first element is ultimately from Sanskrit वैशाख (vaiśākha).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sakaˈmasai/, [sakḁˈmasei̯]
Proper noun
Sakamasay
- (dialectal) August
- A town in Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar.
References
- Alexander Adelaar (2009), “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, DOI:, page 724.