Sakave
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See also: sakāve
Malagasy[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From earlier *Vesaka ve (literally “big Vaisakha”), from *Vesaka + may; the first element is ultimately from Sanskrit वैशाख (vaiśākha).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Sakave
- (dialectal) September
- A town in Anosy, Madagascar.
References[edit]
- ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, , page 724.