Miami
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Etymology 1 edit
From Mayaimi, one of only ten words recorded from the language of the now-extinct Mayaimi people, meaning "big water", referring to the large lake on whose shores they lived, alternately called Lake Miami, Lake Mayimi, Lake Maymi, Lake Maimi; now called Lake Okeechobee. The Florida city is named for the Miami River. The river is named for its source, Lake Miami.
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Miami
- Alternative form of Mayaimi
- an extinct indigenous people of Florida.
- an extinct language spoken by those people.
- A placename:
- A city, the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida.
- A city, the county seat of Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
- A small city, the county seat of Roberts County, Texas.
- A number of townships in the United States, including five in Ohio, listed under Miami Township.
- Ellipsis of Lake Miami.; Former name of Lake Okeechobee.; A lake in Florida, the source of the Miami River
- Synonyms: Lake Mayaimi, Lake Maimi, Lake Mayimi, Lake Maymi
- Ellipsis of Miami River.; A river in Miami-Dade County, Florida, a river flowing past the city of Miami, Dade.
- Synonyms: Mayaimi River, Maimi River, Mayimi River, Maymi River
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city in Florida, United States
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Etymology 2 edit
From Miami Myaamia, the endonym for the tribe in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language.
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Miami (plural Miamis or Miami)
- A member of an indigenous North American people of Algonquian stock.
- Miami University.
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- Ethnologue entry for Miami, mia
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Miami
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Miami
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Inflection of Miami (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Miami | — | ||
genitive | Miamin | — | ||
partitive | Miamia | — | ||
illative | Miamiin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Miami | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Miami | — | |
gen. | Miamin | |||
genitive | Miamin | — | ||
partitive | Miamia | — | ||
inessive | Miamissa | — | ||
elative | Miamista | — | ||
illative | Miamiin | — | ||
adessive | Miamilla | — | ||
ablative | Miamilta | — | ||
allative | Miamille | — | ||
essive | Miamina | — | ||
translative | Miamiksi | — | ||
abessive | Miamitta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Miami f
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Miami f
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- ^ Miami in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Unadapted borrowing from English Miami.
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Miami
- Miami (a city in Florida, United States)
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Miami n (genitive singular Miami)
- Miami (a city in Florida, United States)
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- “Miami”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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Miami f