mayi
See also: máyī and mǎyǐ
Anguthimri
Noun
mayi
- (Mpakwithi) paternal grandfather
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187
Chichewa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmá.ji/
Noun
máyi class 1a (plural amáyi class 2)
- mother
- madam, lady (also used as a term of address)
- maternal aunt, mother's sister
Coordinate terms
- bambo
Derived terms
- mzimayi
- mayi wamkulu
- mayi wamng'ono
Chimwiini
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.
Noun
mayi class 6
- 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
- IPA(key): /maji/
Noun
mayi
- vegetable-based food
Synonyms
- gudhubay (avoidance language)
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.
Noun
mayi
- corn (cereal)
Ido
Noun
mayi
- plural of mayo
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- 𑀫𑀬𑀺 (Brahmi script)
- मयि (Devanagari script)
- মযি (Bengali script)
- මයි (Sinhalese script)
- မယိ (Burmese script)
- มยิ or มะยิ (Thai script)
- ᨾᨿᩥ (Tai Tham script)
- ມຍິ or ມະຍິ or ມະຢິ (Lao script)
- មយិ (Khmer script)
- 𑄟𑄠𑄨 (Chakma script)
Pronoun
mayi
- locative singular of ahaṃ (“me”)
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مایع, from Arabic مَائِع (māʾiʿ).
Noun
mayi (definite accusative mayii, plural mayiler)
- 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
- 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)