maika

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.

• Amika, Kaima, Makai, makai

• mika

maika

1. you
2. your

maika

1. in a hurry

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

maika

1. banana

   Synonym: panana

maika
Root	Classifier
maika-	—

Cognate with Minica Huitoto maika and Nüpode Huitoto maika.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmai̯ka]
• Hyphenation: mai‧ka

maika

1. cassava, yuca

maika

1. cassava, yuca

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (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.‎^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 120