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Estonian
Etymology 1
Noun
maisse
- illative plural of maa
Etymology 2
Noun
maisse
- illative singular of mai
Old Irish
Etymology
From mass + -e.
Pronunciation
Noun
maisse f
- beauty
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 28c25
Nipi cían a masse in choirp.- The beauty of the body is not long-lasting.
- (literally, “Its beauty of the body…”)
Declension
| Feminine iā-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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maisseL
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| Vocative
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maisseL
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| Accusative
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maissiN
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| Genitive
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maisse
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| Dative
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maissiL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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maisse
also mmaisse after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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maisse
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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