aia
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]aia (plural aias)
- Alternative spelling of ayah
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese aia. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origens of this term.
Noun
[edit]aia (plural aias)
Eastern Cham
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Chamic *ʔiar, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aia
- water (clear liquid H₂O)
Estonian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Non-lemma form.
Noun
[edit]aia
Etymology 2
[edit]Onomatopoeia.
Interjection
[edit]aia
Synonyms
[edit]Hawaiian
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]aia
- Used at the beginning of a sentence that describes the location (in space or time) of the subject.
- Aia ka ʻohana ma ke kaʻa.
- The family is in the car.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Latin ārea. Doublet of Italian area (“area”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]aia f (plural aie)
- barnyard, farmyard, threshing floor; paved area (typical of case coloniche) used to thresh wheat, shell legumes and drying cereals
- Near-synonym: cortile
- stendere il grano sull'aia ― to spread the grain on the threshing floor
- 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno – Verso nona”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 77:
- Uscimmo anzi da quella porta e ci trovammo sull'aia, nell'estremità orientale del pianoro, a ridosso delle mura, dove sorgevano molte costruzioni.
- We got out from that door and found ourselves on the barnyard, at the eastern end of the tableland, near the walls, where stood many buildings.
- (medicine) area (clarification of this definition is needed)
- aia cardiaca ― cardiac area
- aia epatica ― hepatic area
- (archaic) open space, clearing
Derived terms
[edit]- aione
- menare il can per l'aia
- mettere stoppia sull'aia (“to waste time”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Feminine of aio, presumed to be from the unattested Gothic *𐌷𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰 (*hagja), or from Latin avia. Compare Sicilian aju, Spanish ayo.
Noun
[edit]aia f (plural aie)
Further reading
[edit]- aia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- àia in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- aia in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Macanese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Cantonese 哎呀 (ai1 jaa3), possibly compounded with Portuguese ai.
Interjection
[edit]aia!
- interjection expressing fear, surprise, pain, impatience
- Aia! Qui boniteza.
- Wow! How beautiful.
- Aia, qui susto!
- Oh, how frightening!
Usage notes
[edit]- Unlike the Cantonese interjection, may sometimes be used positively.
References
[edit]Minangkabau
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayic *air, Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]aia
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin avia (“grandmother”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ajɐ
- Hyphenation: ai‧a
Noun
[edit]aia f (plural aias)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.
Pronunciation
[edit]Determiner
[edit]aia
- nominative/accusative feminine singular of ăla
- Synonym: acea
Pronoun
[edit]aia
Western Cham
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Chamic *ʔiar, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahiʀ. Compare Eastern Cham ꨀꨳꨩ (aia).
Noun
[edit]aia
- water (clear liquid H₂O)
Yurumanguí
[edit]Noun
[edit]aia
References
[edit]- Prehistoria: Lenguas y dialectos indigenas de Colombia (Luis Duque Gómez, Sergio Elías Ortiz, 1965), citing Romero's wordlist; also present in Čestmír Loukotka, Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261
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