madi

madí (masculine padi)

1. female sponsor at a wedding or baptism

From French mardi (“Tuesday”).

• IPA^(key): /madi/

madi

1. Tuesday

• (days of the week) jou nan semèn nan; lendi, madi, mèkredi, jedi, vandredi, samdi, dimanch ^{(Category: ht:Days of the week)}

From Arabic مَادِّيّ (māddiyy).

madi

1. material

From Medieval Byzantine Greek μάτιν (mátin) which is in turn from the Ancient Greek ὀμμάτιον (ommátion), diminutive of ὄμμα (ómma, “eye”). Cognate with Greek μάτι (máti).

madi n (Greek spelling μάτι, plural madia)

1. eye

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From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.

mâdi

1. water

• IPA^(key): /maˈdi/
• Rhymes: -i

madi

1. Alternative form of maddi (“Tuesday”)

From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

madi

1. blood

• → Phuthi: emalî

From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

madi class 6

1. blood

Seemingly a wanderwort ultimately from Swahili mali; compare Shona mari, Zulu imali. However, polysemy between "blood" and "money" is common among Khoisan languages, and also found in Bantu in the Kalahari region: Yeyi maropa (“blood, money”), Mbukushu manyinga (“blood, money”).

madi class 6

1. money

• maadi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

• IPA^(key): [maɾ̠i]

madi

1. (Caura River dialect) the capped heron, Pilherodius pileatus

• kodokodomadi

• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “madi”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎ (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 122
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ma:di”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tadāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 36