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maika

See also: Maika

English

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Noun

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maika (plural maikas)

  1. (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.

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Pronoun

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maika

  1. you
  2. your

Malagasy

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Adjective

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maika

  1. in a hurry

Maori

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Etymology

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Related to Tahitian me'a and Hawaiian maiʻa from Proto-Polynesian *maika.[1][2]

Noun

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maika

  1. banana
    Synonym: panana

References

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  1. ^ “Maika”, in Te Māra Reo, Benson Family Trust, 2023
  2. ^ 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

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maika
Root Classifier
maika- —

Etymology

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Cognate with Minica Huitoto maika and Nüpode Huitoto maika.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmai̯ka]
  • Hyphenation: mai‧ka

Noun

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maika

  1. cassava, yuca

Declension

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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

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maika

  1. cassava, yuca

Derived terms

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References

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  • 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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