ai-yai-ai.

n.  the Russian expression for “tsk-tsk,” as discussed in Hear! Here! by Michele Slung.

ai-yeee ai-yeee.

n.  the squeal of a piglet, as in The Best of Girls to the Rescue by Bruce Lansky.

aia.

adv.  the Hawaiian word for “there.”

Aia.

n.  a Babylonian goddess, spouse  of Utu/Shamash, as discussed in Divine Encounters: A Guide to Visions, Angels, and Other Emissaries by Zecharia Sitchin.


n.  a pass in Ethiopia; a village in Ethiopia.

aia.

n.  an Indian or South African nursemaid or governess; see Aiya.

Aia.

n.  the mythical “end of the earth,” home of the legendary Golden Fleece in the Argonautica.

<Aeetes was originally lord of Aia, a mythical land on the Ocean stream at the eastern edge of the world.  —Donald J. Mastronarde, Euripides: Medea.>

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