maya-mayain

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• may-in-may-in — syncopated, obsolete

Etymology

From maya-maya +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /maˌjaʔ majaˈʔin/, [mɐˌjaʔ mɐ.jɐˈʔin]
  • IPA^(key): /maˌja(ʔ) majaˈʔin/, [mɐˌjaː mɐ.jɐˈʔin] (with glottal stop elision)
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: ma‧ya-ma‧ya‧in

Verb

mayâ-mayaín (complete minaya-maya, progressive minamaya-maya, contemplative mamaya-mayain, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜌᜋᜌᜁᜈ᜔) (obsolete)

1. to be done bit by bit from time to time

Further reading

• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 827.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier