Maire
English
editEtymology 1
editAnglicisation of Irish Máire (“Mary”).
Proper noun
editMaire
- A female given name from Irish.
Etymology 2
editProper noun
editMaire (plural Maires)
- A surname from French.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Maire is the 35812th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 627 individuals. Maire is most common among White (90.91%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Maire”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 494.
Anagrams
editDutch
editEtymology
editNamed after the former village of Maire, which was lost to flooding in 1530.
Pronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: Mai‧re
Proper noun
editMaire n
- a former municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands
Estonian
editProper noun
editMaire
- a female given name borrowed from Finnish Maire
Finnish
editEtymology
editShort form of mairea in its archaic meaning "lovely, sweet".
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈmɑi̯re/, [ˈmɑ̝i̯re̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑire
- Syllabification(key): Mai‧re
- Hyphenation(key): Mai‧re
Proper noun
editMaire
- a female given name
Declension
editInflection of Maire (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Maire | Mairet | |
genitive | Mairen | Mairejen | |
partitive | Mairea | Maireja | |
illative | Maireen | Maireihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Maire | Mairet | |
accusative | nom. | Maire | Mairet |
gen. | Mairen | ||
genitive | Mairen | Mairejen Mairein rare | |
partitive | Mairea | Maireja | |
inessive | Mairessa | Maireissa | |
elative | Mairesta | Maireista | |
illative | Maireen | Maireihin | |
adessive | Mairella | Maireilla | |
ablative | Mairelta | Maireilta | |
allative | Mairelle | Maireille | |
essive | Mairena | Maireina | |
translative | Maireksi | Maireiksi | |
abessive | Mairetta | Maireitta | |
instructive | — | Mairein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
edit- Maire is the 130th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,464 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,050 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
editOld Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρίᾱ (Maríā), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מַרְיָם (maryām) or Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryām).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editMaire f
Descendants
editMutation
editradical | lenition | nasalization |
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Maire also Mmaire after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
Maire pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 Muire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- English countable nouns
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- English surnames from French
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Former municipalities of the Netherlands
- nl:Places in Zeeland, Netherlands
- nl:Places in the Netherlands
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
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- Estonian terms derived from Finnish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑire
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑire/2 syllables
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