miya
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
miya (plural miyas or miya)
- (obsolete) A Japanese shrine.
- 1878, N. McLeod, Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan, page 52:
- In the great matsuris or religious festivals […] the Samurais' wives and families may be seen holding these festivals at the miyas where the harlots worship and mixing freely in the crowd amongst them.
Anagrams edit
Bura edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mìya
References edit
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Chickasaw edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
miya (active)
- to say about oneself
- to mean
- they say (used at the end of phrases when telling traditional accounts/stories)
Inflection edit
Class I Verb Subjects (Active)
Verbs beginning with a consonant. | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
---|---|---|---|
1st-person (I, we) | miyali miya-li |
iimiya / iliimiya / liimiya ii-miya / ilii-miya / lii-miya |
iloomiya iloo-miya |
2nd-person (you, you all) | ishmiya ish-miya |
hashmiya hash-miya | |
3rd-person (he, she, it, they) | miya | (hoo)miya (hoo-)miya |
Hausa edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
miyā̀ f (possessed form miyàr̃)
- a kind of sauce or stew made with various meats and vegetables, eaten alongside tuwo
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
miya
Kamba edit
Pronoun edit
miya
Masbatenyo edit
Noun edit
miyà
Surigaonon edit
Noun edit
miyá
Turkish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Pontic Greek μυία (myía).
Noun edit
miya
Etymology 2 edit
Unknown.
Adjective edit
miya
References edit
“miya”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
Uzbek edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *bẹńi.
Noun edit
miya (plural miyalar)
Declension edit
Declension of miya
Possessive forms of miya
Wandala edit
Pronoun edit
míyà
- we (inclusive)
See also edit
- ŋre (“we”) (exclusive)
References edit
- Frajzyngier, Zygmunt (2012) “miya”, in A Grammar of Wandala, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN
Wanyi edit
Noun edit
miya
References edit
- Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)