Re: India first -- typo correction

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > On 2008-01-24 18:06, kishore patnaik wrote:
> >
> > > Not only in ancient India, home of high internal metaphysics
> > > and spiritual adventure, do we find the name Maya, but also
> > > farther to the west.
> >
> > That's for sure:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_the_Bee
> >
> > Piotr
>
> ****GK: It's also a term designating "my wife" among many Russian
> speakers (the akannja does it): "maya" = "my" "mine" (wife). Lots
> of Mayas there (:=)))****

...and, in many Italian dialects, "maja" (pronounced as ma:ya)
means "undershirt". How does this etymon relate to the venerable
Sanskrit term Maya? :^0

Francesco