mado

See also: Madò, madō, and mądo

English

Noun

mado (usually uncountable, plural mados)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Any fish in the genus Atypichthys, in Australia mostly Atypichthys strigatus and in New Zealand Atypichthys latus.

Anagrams

• Amdo, DOMA, MOAD, Moad, OADM, OMAD

Japanese

Romanization

mado

1. Rōmaji transcription of まど

Karelian

Regional variants of mado

North Karelian (Viena)	mato
South Karelian (Tver)	mado

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mato. Cognates include Finnish mato and Veps mado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdo/
• Hyphenation: ma‧do

Noun

mado (genitive mavon, partitive maduo, diminutive madone)

1. (South Karelian) snake
2. (South Karelian) worm

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of mado (type 1/tyttö d-v gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	mado	mavot
genitive	mavon	madoloin
partitive	maduo	madoloida
illative	madoh	madoloih
inessive	mavošša	madoloissa
elative	mavošta	madoloista
adessive	mavolla	madoloilla
ablative	mavolda	madoloilda
translative	mavokši	madoloiksi
essive	madona	madoloina
comitative	mavonke	madoloinke
abessive	mavotta	madoloitta

Possessive forms of mado
1st person	madoni
2nd person	madoš
3rd person	madoh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms

• (snake): (North Karelian) kiärmis, (dialectal) mato, smeja (South Karelian) zmeja, guada

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994), “mado”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mato.

Noun

mado

1. snake

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *maþō.

Noun

mado m

1. maggot

Declension

Declension of mado (masculine n-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	mado	madon, madun
accusative	madon, madun	madon, madun
genitive	maden, madin	madōno
dative	maden, madin	madōm, madōn

Descendants

• Middle High German: made
  • German: Made
  • Luxembourgish: Mued

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀫𑀤𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• मदो (Devanagari script)
• মদো (Bengali script)
• මදො (Sinhalese script)
• မဒေါ or မၻေႃ (Burmese script)
• มโท or มะโท (Thai script)
• ᨾᨴᩮᩤ (Tai Tham script)
• ມໂທ or ມະໂທ (Lao script)
• មទោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄘𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

mado

1. nominative singular of mada (“intoxication”)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mato.

Noun

mado

1. worm
2. snake

Inflection

Inflection of mado (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	mado
genitive sing.	madon
partitive sing.	madod
partitive plur.	madoid
	singular	plural
nominative	mado	madod
accusative	madon	madod
genitive	madon	madoiden
partitive	madod	madoid
essive-instructive	madon	madoin
translative	madoks	madoikš
inessive	mados	madoiš
elative	madospäi	madoišpäi
illative	madoho	madoihe
adessive	madol	madoil
ablative	madolpäi	madoilpäi
allative	madole	madoile
abessive	madota	madoita
comitative	madonke	madoidenke
prolative	madodme	madoidme
approximative I	madonno	madoidenno
approximative II	madonnoks	madoidennoks
egressive	madonnopäi	madoidennopäi
terminative I	madohosai	madoihesai
terminative II	madolesai	madoilesai
terminative III	madossai	—
additive I	madohopäi	madoihepäi
additive II	madolepäi	madoilepäi

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “змея, червь”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Yami

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 窓 (mado, “window”).

Noun

mado

1. window

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	mado
Brazilian standard	mado
New Tribes	mado

Alternative forms

• ma'do

Etymology

Perhaps compare Hixkaryana kamara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maɾ̠o]

Noun

mado

1. the jaguar, Panthera onca

Derived terms

• mado jedü

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “mado”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “ma'do”, 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 125
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 219, 393: “[mạ:ḍo] 'jaguar' […] ma:do/mado - jaguar”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “mado”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Guss, David M. (1989), To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 110: “mado”