малъ

See also: маљ

Avar

Alternative forms

  • мат (mat), малгь (malh), мал (mal), махь' (max̂') dialectal

Etymology

Akin to Bezhta милъо (milˢo) and Hinukh молъу (moλu), maybe also to Chechen мӏара (mˀara) and Old Armenian մագիլ (magil).

Noun

малъ • (malˢ) (plural малъал)

  1. nail (on fingers)
  2. claw
  3. hoof

References

  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mɦǟƛă (~-ǝ̆)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  • Saidova, P. A. (1999) “малъ”, in Диалектологический словарь аварского языка [Dialectological dictionary of Avar] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 245b

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *malъ.

Adjective

малъ • (malŭ) (comparative мьн҄ии)

  1. small

Declension

References

  • S. C. Gardiner, Old church Slavonic: an elementary grammar, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *malъ.

Adjective

малъ (malŭ)

  1. small

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: малы́й (malýj)
  • Russian: ма́лый (mályj), мало́й (malój)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “малыи”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 106
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