maate
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From the instructive form of the second infinitive of maata (standard maaten).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
maate (dialectal)
Usage notes edit
Usually used with käydä, mennä or panna.
Further reading edit
- “maate”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Yola edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English mete, from Old English mete, from Proto-West Germanic *mati.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
maate [1]
- flesh meat
- 1927, “THE FORTH MAN'S GRACE AFTER A SCANTY DINNER”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 137, lines 3[2]:
- Gin we have no mo' maate, it maakes no mo' matter,
- [If we have no more meat, it makes no more matter,]
Usage notes edit
English <ea> can be remodelled as Yola <aa> or <a>, as in baanès, banès (“beans”). In this case, maate (meat) shares the same spelling with maate (made).
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
maate
- simple past of maake[1]
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:
- Th' ball want a cowlee, the gazb maate all rize;
- The ball o'er shot the goal, the dust rose all about;
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 93:
- Aar was a gooude puddeen maate o bran.
- There was a good pudding made of bran.
- 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 102:
- Which maate mee hearth as coale as leed.
- Which made my heart as cold as lead.
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 55
- ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland