mai
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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
Mai, plural, Maih : Finger (King 1821: 145)
Mya : a house. (R M Lyon, 23/03/1833 – Language of Derbal)
my-a : bark, anything constructed of bark; as a house or basket (Grey 1839:?)
Mya. : House (Moore 1842: 140)
My-a : House (Symmons 1842: 5)
My-a : house (Brady 1845: 32)
mire : Camp (Barlee (Curr) 1886: 355)
my-ya : Camp (Hackett (Curr) 1886: 345)
mia, karlamia : Camp (Hossell, Knight & Spencer (Curr) 1886: 389)
mya : Camp (hut) (Whitfield (Curr) 1886: 327)
Maia : House (Baaburgurt (Bulyen/George Eliot); Bates XII 2B, 13: 27)
Maia : Camp (Balbuk; Bates XII 2B, 15: 22)
Mai-ak : Go in, to (Joobaitch (Ngoorweel); Bates XII, 2B, 14: 28)
Mai : Mia (native hut) (Kajaman; Bates XII, 2B, 11: 29)
Maa : House (Monnop, Ballarruk; Bates XII 2B, 24: 21)
Maia : House (Ngilgee; Bates XII 2B, 12a: 28)
miah : nest (Bussell 1930: 13)
Mya-mya : Hut (Hammond 1938: 16)
Myera : house (Old Settlers of WA 1949: 05)
maaya : camp (Tommy Cowan, Tommy Kickett (O’Grady) 1960)
kaḷa, may : home (Douglas 1968: 92)
mia : hut or shelter (Hassell 1975: 232)
maay : house, hut, bark hut (Von Brandenstein 1988: 11)
maia, maia-maia : house, hut (Douglas 1991: 24)
maya, miya, kwont : hut (Whitehurst 1992: 39)
may : shelter, hut, house (S,E) (Dench 1994: 181)
Mia mia : House (Richards 1994: 128)
Maya : shop (Mippy (Rooney) 2002: 325)
Myrra : Camp or resting place (Possible names for new Post Offices – supplied by the Native Affairs Department (date unknown))