maha

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maha

1. (archaic) A kind of monkey; the wanderoo.
   • 1896, Richard Lydekker, A Geographical History of Mammals:

     The natives, who designate the latter as the Maha, or Great Wanderu, to distinguish it from the Kala, or Black one […]

• “maha”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• AHAM, Hama, amah

maha

1. to press

maha

1. pig

• Jim and Judy Parlier Managalasi phonology. 2008 [1963].

Irregular illative of maa (“earth, ground”).

maha (not comparable)

1. down

   Tule maha!

   Come down!

2. into the ground

   Me panime eile kartulid maha.

   We planted the potatoes yesterday. (lit. "We put the potatoes into the ground yesterday".)

3. off

   Kütt võttis rebaselt naha maha.

   The hunter skinned the fox. (lit. "The hunter took the skin off of the fox".)

From Proto-Finnic *maha, borrowed from a Germanic language, compare Proto-Germanic *magô, Swedish mage. Cognates include Karelian maha, Votic maha, Ludian maha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑhɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝ɦɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑhɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧ha

maha

1. stomach, belly

maha is often used when talking about the inner part (or a round belly) and vatsa when talking about the outer, but especially in speech the usage of these words is often very mixed up.

• masu
• vatsa

• “maha”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Haam, ahma, hama

Borrowed from Sanskrit महा (mahā), combining form of महत् (mahat).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaha/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ha
• Rhymes: -ha, -a

maha

1. mighty, great
2. infinite
3. sublime

• maha-

maha

1. to go

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 75.

maha

1. stomach

Borrowed from Sanskrit महा (mahā), combining form of महत् (mahat).

• Rhymes: -a

maha

1. mighty, great
2. infinite
3. sublime

maha

1. abundance, bounty, majority

maha m

1. religious festival

maha

1. masculine/neuter vocative singular of mahant

Borrowed from Tahitian maha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ha/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ha

maha

1. four

• Maha is used in compound numerals only:

  Maha 'ahuru. ― Forty (literally, “Four tens.”)

  Maha 'ahuru mā maha. ― Forty-four (literally, “Four tens and four.”)

• For the simple number "four", the native term hā is used.

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 170
• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎^[2], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 147

maha

1. genitive singular of mah

maha

1. genitive singular of mah

maha

1. four

   nā taʻata/tāʻata e maha ― four people

• maha ʻahuru

• → Rapa Nui: maha

• toʻomāha

From Old High German mahhōn, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn.

maha

1. (transitive) to do or make

   No bo, wos kon yhy maha? ― Well then, what can I do?

maha is a weak verb ending in -a

Present tense: yhy mah

dü mahst

har / zej / ejs maht

wjyr maha

jyr maht

zej maha

Past tense: yhy maht

dü mahtst

har / zej / ejs maht

wjyr mahta

jyr maht

zej mahta

Present participle: maha Past participle: gymaht

A GRAMMAR OF WYMYSORYS, Alexander Andrason & Tymoteusz Król, Duke University, Slavic and East European Language Resource Center – SEELRC, 2016