maika
See also: Maika
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 edit
maika
Malagasy edit
Adjective edit
maika
- in a hurry
Maori edit
Etymology edit
Related to Tahitian me'a and Hawaiian maiʻa from Proto-Polynesian *maika.[1][2]
Noun edit
maika
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 edit
maika
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