maika

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English

Noun

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.

Anagrams

Chinook Jargon

Alternative forms

Pronoun

maika

  1. you
  2. your

Malagasy

Adjective

maika

  1. in a hurry

Maori

Etymology

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

Noun

maika

  1. banana
    Synonym: panana

References

  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, Auckland: Polynesian Society, archived from the original on 3 February 2019, pages 67-72

Murui Huitoto

maika
Root Classifier
maika- —

Etymology

Cognate with Minica Huitoto maika and Nüpode Huitoto maika.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: mai‧ka

Noun

maika

  1. cassava, yuca

Declension

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

maika

  1. cassava, yuca

Derived terms

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (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.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 120
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