mayi

mayi

1. (Mpakwithi) paternal grandfather

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmá.ji/

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

• bambo

• mzimayi
• mayi wamkulu
• mayi wamng'ono

From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.

mayi class 6

1. water

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

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

Compare Wanyi mama.

• IPA^(key): /maji/

mayi

1. vegetable-based food

• gudhubay (avoidance language)

• 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.

From French maïs.

mayi

1. corn (cereal)

mayi

1. plural of mayo

mayi

1. locative singular of ahaṃ (“me”)

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

mayi (definite accusative mayii, plural mayiler)

1. liquid, fluid

   Synonym: sıvı

• 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

mayi

1. expresses a possible future state

• 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)