maide

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English

Noun

maide (plural maides)

  1. Obsolete spelling of maid

Anagrams

Estonian

Noun

maide

  1. genitive plural of mai

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, nominative plural maidí)

  1. stick
    Synonyms: bata, slat
  2. peg
    Synonyms: tairne, pionna, bacán
  3. baton
    Synonym: bata
  4. (nautical) rib, timber
    Synonym: easna
  5. (golf) club

Declension

Declension of maide

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative maide maidí
Vocative a mhaide a mhaidí
Genitive maide maidí
Dative maide maidí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an maide na maidí
Genitive an mhaide na maidí
Dative leis an maide

don mhaide

leis na maidí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
maide mhaide not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32

Further reading

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mazdyo- (“stick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *masdo-, see also Proto-Germanic *mastaz, Latin malus (“pole”), or possibly instead borrowed from a pre-Indo-European substrate.

Noun

maide m

  1. stick

Descendants

  • Irish: maide
  • Manx: maidjey
  • Scottish Gaelic: maide

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
maide maide
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/		 unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmatʲə/, /ˈmatʃə/
  • (Barra, Gairloch, Argyll, Perthshire) IPA(key): /ˈmɛtʲə/, /ˈmɛtʃə/

Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, plural maidean or maideachan)

  1. wood, timber
  2. stick
  3. staff, cudgel

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
maide mhaide
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “maide”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Yola

Noun

maide

  1. Alternative form of mydhe
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:
      A maide vrem a Bearlough,

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 18
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