maisse

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

maisse

1. illative plural of maa

Etymology 2

Noun

maisse

1. illative singular of mai

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• maise, masse

Etymology

From mass +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmasʲe/

Noun

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. 28^c25

     Nipi cían a masse in choirp.

     The beauty of the body is not long-lasting.

     (literally, “Its beauty of the body…”)

Declension

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

• Irish: maise
• Scottish Gaelic: maise

Mutation

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language