Míya

Noun n.

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Français: Mesure, bouche, bec, ouverture, côté, fin
English: Measure; mouth; peak; opening; side; end
العربية: قياس، فم، منقار، فتحة، جانب، نهاية

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Swadesh list)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Míya (Measure; mouth; peak; opening; side; end). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/236-miya (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarmiya,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Míya (Measure; mouth; peak; opening; side; end)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/236-miya},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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117 Morphology míya kukú mosquito (Lit: long beak) mouth be.long All these expressions form their plural by adding a plural morpheme only to the last element of the term, e.g., naná ceen-án for ‘maternal aunts’. A small number of idioms use the genitive /n/ as link between the two terms. The stress pattern of these expressions is the same as in regular genitival constructions. All terms except ‘ox’ are Songhay cognates. They form the plural by adding a plural morpheme only to …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 135
… he maximal expansion is illustrated by the following example. (3) [[[[aɣ₌n 1s₌GEN amǝnóokal] ǝn] bundú] chief GEN stick the end of the stick of my chief n] GEN míya end The allomorphs of the possessive pronouns are discussed under 2.4.2.4. 4.1.2.2 wán--en Possessor wáni / wán A possessor phrase formed with the postposition wáni, pl. wán-en follows the head NP it specifies. The postposition normally agrees in number with the head noun. Semantically an owner relationship is not …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 163
… d noun. (26) Man na umuk [aɣo enda] ar-te-guna way [# Ø-bara iʒinan], where DET manner REL COM 1P-FUT-see woman PERF-be.in sky sa [ayn hugu a-f-kedi tazaɣant n miya kuku-an]? COMPZR 3S.GEN house 3S-IMPF-be.up mast GEN end be.long-ADJZ How are we going to see the woman being in the sky, whose house is up at the end of a long mast? The constituent that contains the possessive pronoun which is correlative with the head noun may be fronted. If this happens, then a correlative pro …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 8

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