mia mia

== English == === Alternative forms === mia-mia === Etymology === Borrowed from Kurnai mai-mai or Wathaurong [Term?]. === Noun === mia mia (plural mia mias) (Australia) An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya. 1913, William Henry Fitchett, The New World of the South: Australia in the Making, 2006 Elibron Classics, page 391, On the point of this “spear” they erected what looked like a mia-mia, a hut made of branches by the blacks ; across the road opposite to it the trunk of a tree was dragged, leaving a narrow track along which the escort must defile. ==== Usage notes ==== The word gunya is more common in some parts of Australia. The term "mia mia" is already a plural in the local language (where plurality is indicated by repeating the word). ==== Synonyms ==== gunya humpy wurly === References === === Anagrams === amimia