Meaning: maybe wet nurse, midwife
Gender: female
Languages of use: English
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Meaning/translation: wet nurse, midwife (?)
Language of origin: Latin
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in Greek mythology Maia is the most beautiful of the Pleiades and the mother of Mercury
the name Maia maybe means wet nurse, midwife
in Roman mythology Maja (later seen as identical with the Greek Maia) was a Goddess of fertility and of the growth in Spring
the name of the month May is derived from the Roman Maja
Words:
maia = the wet nurse, the midwife Old Greek
mai- = big, great Latin
der Mai = May German