mayi

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See also: máyī and mǎyǐ

Anguthimri

Noun

mayi

  1. (Mpakwithi) paternal grandfather

References

  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Chichewa

Pronunciation

Noun

máyi class 1a (plural amáyi class 2)

  1. mother
  2. madam, lady (also used as a term of address)
  3. maternal aunt, mother's sister

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Chimwiini

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.

Noun

mayi class 6

  1. water

References

  • Charles W. Kisseberth and Mohammad Imam Abasheikh (2011), "Chimwiini phonological phrasing revisited" in Lingua 121:1987–2013.

Guugu Yimidhirr

FWOTD – 12 May 2014

Etymology

From Proto-Paman *mayi, from Proto-Pama-Maric *mayi, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *mayi.

Compare Wanyi mama.

Pronunciation

Noun

mayi

  1. vegetable-based food

Synonyms

References

  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
  • Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French maïs.

Pronunciation

Noun

mayi

  1. corn (cereal)

Ido

Noun

mayi

  1. plural of mayo

Luba-Kasai

Noun

mayi

  1. water

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

Pronoun

mayi

  1. locative singular of ahaṃ (“me”)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مایع, from Arabic مَائِع (māʔiʕ).

Noun

mayi (definite accusative mayii, plural mayiler)

  1. liquid, fluid
    Synonym: sıvı

References

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مایع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1098
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mayi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Wanyi

Particle

mayi

  1. expresses a possible future state

References

  • 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)
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