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maile

See also: Maile and mailé

English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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maile (uncountable)

  1. A flowering Hawaiian vine (Alyxia stellata), of the genus Alyxia, used to make lei.
    • 1910, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, page 165:
      All about the tents were ferns, while the fragrant maile trailed from every tree and bush […]

Etymology 2

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Variant of mail.

Noun

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maile (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of mail (“chainmail”).

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Danish

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Etymology

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From English mail (“[delivery of] letters and small parcels”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɛjlə/, [ˈmɛjlə]

Verb

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maile (imperative mail, infinitive at maile, present tense mailer, past tense mailede, perfect tense er/har mailet)

  1. e-mail (to compose and send an e-mail) [from 1989]

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Dutch

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maile

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of mailen

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Estonian

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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maile

  1. allative plural of maa

Etymology 2

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Noun

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maile

  1. allative singular of mai

French

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maile

  1. inflection of mailer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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German

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maile

  1. inflection of mailen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Gothic

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Romanization

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mailē

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌴

Hawaiian

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Noun

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maile

  1. (botany) maile

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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maile

  1. Alternative form of male (“bag”)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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maile

  1. Alternative form of mayle

Samoan

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Noun

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maile

  1. dog

Tokelauan

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Te maile (1).
 
Te maile (2).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ma.ˈi.le]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧i‧le

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian [Term?]. Cognates include Samoan maile.

Noun

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maile

  1. dog (Canis familiaris)

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Polynesian *maile. Cognates include Hawaiian maile and Samoan maile.

Noun

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maile

  1. giant swordfern (Nephrolepis biserrata)

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  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 199
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