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Hermes' mother
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maia
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Roman goddess of fertility, Latin Maia , literally "she who brings increase," related to magnus "great" (see magnate ). Maia , one of the Pleiades, is from Greek Maia , daughter of Atlas, mother of Hermes, literally "mother, good mother, dame; foster-mother, ...
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Maia (sometimes written Matia ), was the wet-nurse of the Ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun . She is known from her rock-cut tomb found at Saqqara . Her tomb was discovered in 1996 by the French Egyptologist Alain Zivie . Maia bears the titles wet nurse ...
Usage examples of maia.
From hints here and there, Maia surmised that some of these vars had wore the red bandanna themselves.
With a pounding heart, Maia pulled the bandanna down further, picked up the food pails, and stepped out of the dim room.
But when they had loosed the hawsers thence in fair weather, then Euphemus bethought him of a dream of the night, reverencing the glorious son of Maia.
Just as the trees ended, Brod stepped to the right, making room for Maia.
Maia spent one evening, assisted by Brod, reviewing for the others how to sight certain stars by night, and judge sun angle by day.
Maia watched from the precipice, along with Brod and several women, remembering the last time she had seen big floaters like these, though nowhere near this many.
His longing expression, followed by sheepish blushing, finished off one lingering doubt Maia had nursedthat Brod might just possibly be a spy, left here by the reavers to watch over the prisoners.
Maia pondered, patting Brod on the back and turning to go back to work.
Maia and Brod stood up, together releasing the clamps holding the furled sail, and drew it to the clew outhaul.
The fabric flapped like a liberated bird, suddenly catching the wind and throwing the boom hard to port, catching Brod and knocking him into Maia.
Maia and Brod ducked again, having caught sight of an expanse of floating bits and flinders, logs and loosely tethered boxes, along with one drifting, grotesquely ruined body.
Given the size of the house, Maia had expected to see more fecund Joplands, till she realized.
Ignoring lancing pain, thrashing in the tight press of struggling women, Maia succeeded at last in dragging the fallen Kau out of the fray.
Maia reluctantly turned away from the entrancing isles to look where Kau gestured, toward a misleadingly rosy dawn.
Thalia, Captain Poulandres, Baltha, Kau, most of the rads, most of the reavers, nearly all of the Manitou crew, including the young navigator who had helped Maia and her twin find their way through the dazzling complexity of the world-wall.