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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]maika (plural maikas)
- (India) A woman's maternal village: the place where she grew up, especially as contrasted with her new home after marriage.
- 1977, Kenneth David, editor, The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia, page 279:
- A woman typically reports feeling much better after visiting her maika, and it is sometimes thought that the health of her children is improved by their visiting their mother's brother's house.
- 1996, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, page 86:
- These images reflect a married woman's fond, idealized recollections of her maikā, where she was relatively free and pampered and which she perceives as a land of (emotional) wealth and prosperity.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72:
- This was the last indulgence she was permitted. It was meant to soften the severing of all connections with her maika.
Anagrams
[edit]Chinook Jargon
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronoun
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Malagasy
[edit]Adjective
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- in a hurry
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to Tahitian me'a and Hawaiian maiʻa from Proto-Polynesian *maika.[1][2]
Noun
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References
[edit]- ^ “Maika”, in Te Māra Reo, Benson Family Trust, 2023
- ^ Biggs, Bruce (1991) “A Linguist Revisits the New Zealand Bush”, in Pawley, A, editor, Man and a half: essays in Pacific anthropology and ethnobiology in honour of Ralph Bulmer[1], Auckland: Polynesian Society, archived from the original on 3 February 2019, pages 67-72
Murui Huitoto
[edit]| maika | |
|---|---|
| Root | Classifier |
| maika- | — |
Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Minica Huitoto maika and Nüpode Huitoto maika.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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Declension
[edit]Declension of maika
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Absolutive | maika | maikaɨaɨ |
| Nominative | maikadɨ | maikaɨaɨdɨ |
| Accusative | maikana | maikaɨaɨna |
| Dative/Locative | maikamo | maikaɨaɨmo |
| Ablative | maikamona | maikaɨaɨmona |
| Instrumental | maikado | maikaɨaɨdo |
| Causal | maikari | maikaɨaɨri |
| Privative | maikanino | maikaɨaɨnino |
Root
[edit]maika
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 171
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 120
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