Estonian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

maisse

  1. illative plural of maa

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

maisse

  1. illative singular of mai

Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From mass +‎ -e.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

maisse f

  1. 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 edit

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative maisseL
Vocative maisseL
Accusative maissiN
Genitive maisse
Dative maissiL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants edit

  • Irish: maise
  • Scottish Gaelic: maise

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
maisse
also mmaisse after a proclitic
maisse
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit