tais

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English

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Noun

tais (plural tais)

  1. A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

tais

  1. inflection of taire:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish tais (“damp”).

Adjective

tais (genitive singular masculine tais, genitive singular feminine taise, plural taise, comparative taise)

  1. damp, moist, humid
  2. soft, smooth, tender
  3. mild, gentle; kind, compassionate
  4. soft, weak, indulgent
Declension
Declension of tais
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative tais thais taise;
thaise²
Vocative thais taise
Genitive taise taise tais
Dative tais;
thais¹ 		thais taise;
thaise²
Comparative níos taise
Superlative is taise

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

tais f (genitive singular taise, nominative plural taisí)

  1. Alternative form of taise (“doppelganger, fetch, wraith; shade, apparition, ghost”)
Declension
Declension of tais

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tais taisí
Vocative a thais a thaisí
Genitive taise taisí
Dative tais taisí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tais na taisí
Genitive na taise na dtaisí
Dative leis an tais

don tais

leis na taisí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tais thais dtais
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Latvian

Pronoun

tais

  1. in those; locative plural masculine of tas
  2. in those; locative plural feminine of tas

Occitan

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Noun

tais m (plural taisses)

  1. badger

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Determiner

tais

  1. plural of tal

Etymology 2

Noun

tais m (uncountable)

  1. (rare) tais (a traditional woven textile of East Timor)

Etymology 3

Shortening of estais, second-person plural present indicative of estar.

Verb

tais

  1. Eye dialect spelling of estais.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From German Teich.

Noun

tais

  1. swamp

White Hmong

Etymology

From Thai ถ้วย (tûai) ("cup" or "bowl") or Lao ຖ້ວຍ (thuāi) ("cup" or "bowl").

Pronunciation

Noun

tais

  1. basin
  2. dish, plate, bowl
  3. cup

References

  • Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)
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