maile

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See also: Maile and mailé

English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

maile (uncountable)

  1. A flowering Hawaiian vine (Alyxia stellata), of the genus Alyxia, used to make lei.
    • 1910, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, page 165:
      All about the tents were ferns, while the fragrant maile trailed from every tree and bush […]

Etymology 2

Variant of mail.

Noun

maile (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of mail (“chainmail”).

References

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From English mail (“ letters and small parcels”).

Pronunciation

Verb

maile (imperative mail, infinitive at maile, present tense mailer, past tense mailede, perfect tense er/har mailet)

  1. e-mail (to compose and send an e-mail)

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

maile

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of mailen

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

maile

  1. allative plural of maa

Etymology 2

Noun

maile

  1. allative singular of mai

French

Pronunciation

Verb

maile

  1. inflection of mailer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

Verb

maile

  1. inflection of mailen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Gothic

Romanization

mailē

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌴

Hawaiian

Noun

maile

  1. (botany) maile

Derived terms

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

maile

  1. Alternative form of male (“bag”)

Etymology 2

Noun

maile

  1. Alternative form of mayle

Samoan

Noun

maile

  1. dog

Tokelauan

Te maile (1).
Te maile (2).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ma‧i‧le

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian . Cognates include Samoan maile.

Noun

maile

  1. dog (Canis familiaris)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *maile. Cognates include Hawaiian maile and Samoan maile.

Noun

maile

  1. giant swordfern (Nephrolepis biserrata)

References

  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 199
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