maat
See also: Maat
English
Noun
maat (plural maats)
- (South Africa, slang) mate; buddy
- 2007, William Higham, The Hammarskjold Killing, page 226:
- A lot of my maats went west.
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aːt
Etymology 1
From older mate, which still exists in parallel with this form. From Middle Dutch mate, from Old Dutch *māta, from Proto-Germanic *mētō.
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Etymology 2
From a borrowing of Middle Low German māt, māte, from Old Saxon *gimato, cognate with Old High German gimazzo, English mate.
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Finnish
Volapük
Declension
declension of maat
singular | plural | |
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nominative | maat | maats |
genitive | maata | maatas |
dative | maate | maates |
accusative | maati | maatis |
vocative 1 | o maat! | o maats! |
predicative 2 | maatu | maatus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only
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