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English
Verb
maye (past mighte)
- Obsolete spelling of may
1915, Laban Miles Hoffman, “Preface”, in Our Kin, Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., published 1980, →OCLC, page 9:It is no part of my purpose to make gain from this work. I had hoped to publish it in permanent form and distribute it among my friends as a present but it has grown to such proportions that that will not be practicable and I do hope that I maye be able to sell enough copies at about cost to materially assist in the publication.
Anagrams
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Arabic مَائِع (māʔiʕ).
Pronunciation
Noun
maye (definite accusative mayeni, plural mayelər)
- liquid, fluid
Declension
Adjective
maye (comparative daha maye, superlative ən maye)
- liquid
- Antonym: sərt
Further reading
Chichewa
Noun
maye class 6
- plural of dzaye
Hausa
Pronunciation
Noun
mā̀yē m (possessed form mā̀yen)
- intoxication, drunkenness
References
- Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 154.
Spanish
Verb
maye
- inflection of mayar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Zulu
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /mʱájʱêː/
Interjection
maye
- beware!, look out!, oh my!
- eish!
- yippee!
References