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meaning

earth, land; outdoors, world; country, territory; soil

semantic space · lipamanka

ma is a place or location. This can be a physical one, like a country or spot on the ground. It's far more common to see ma used to talk about grounded locations, but it's also used to talk about anything from a treebranch something's on or even an airplane miles or kilomiters above the ground. ma can sometimes be the ground itself, like dirt or rocks, or even an entire planet with a hard surface. don't confuse ma with kiwen though, because ma has connotations of location and ground that kiwen doesn't.

ku translations

country100, territory100, land93, realm91, area81, field80, region80, place73, soil73, earth71, province70, zone69, ground64, nation62, environmental57, environment54, location50, site50, domain45, national45, world45, nature43, continent40, landscape40, setting40, outdoors38, habitat36, dirt33, sector31, yard29, kingdom28, venue27, outside26, acre25

pu verbatim

NOUN earth, land; outdoors, world; country, territory; soil

usage

core · 100% usage

found in pu

coined pre-pu

origin

Finnish · maa ‘earth, land’

coined by jan Sonja

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perhaps from modern astronomical symbol “earth” (⊕)

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