mair
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English mair, mare, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mair (not comparable)
AdverbEdit
mair (not comparable)
NounEdit
mair (plural mairs)
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IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
mair (present analytic maireann, future analytic mairfidh, verbal noun maireachtáil, past participle mairthe)
- live, remain, survive
- Go maire tú é.
- May you live to enjoy it.
- Maireann croí éadrom i bhfad.
- A light heart lives long.
- Mairim anseo.
- I live here.
- Sláinte chuig na fir agus go maire na mná go deo!
- Health to the men and may the women live forever!
- last (“endure, hold out, continue”)
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 199:
- mŭȧŕə n wūn dūń kaiḱīš elə.
- Mairfidh an mhóin dúinn coicís eile. (conventional orthography)
- The turf will last us another fortnight.
- mŭȧŕə n wūn dūń kaiḱīš elə.
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 199:
ConjugationEdit
* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Alternative verbal nouns: maireachtaint, mairstean
Derived termsEdit
- maireachtáil (“living (noun)”)
- go maire tú an lá (“happy birthday”)
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mair | mhair | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 32
ManxEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish mér, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.
NounEdit
mair f (genitive singular mair, plural meir)
Derived termsEdit
- mair chass, mair choshey (“toe”)
- mair-chlaare (“keyboard, fingerboard”)
- mair-chooilleeney (“masturbation”)
- mair choshey veg, mair veg ny coshey (“little toe”)
- mair ny fainey (“ring finger”)
- mair veg (“little finger”)
- mair vooar (“middle finger”)
MutationEdit
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mair | vair | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
OccitanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Gascon) (file)
NounEdit
mair f (plural mairs)
ReferencesEdit
ScotsEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From northern Middle English mare, from Old English māra (compare English more, and German mehr), from Proto-Germanic *maizô.
AdjectiveEdit
mair (not comparable)
AdverbEdit
mair (not comparable)
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English meyr, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”).
NounEdit
mair (plural mairs)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From Old English mōr.
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
mair (plural mairs)
Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
mair (past mhair, future mairidh, verbal noun mairsinn or maireann or maireachdainn, past participle mairte)