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tais

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tais"

English

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Etymology

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Noun

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tais (plural tais)

  1. A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor.

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French

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Verb

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tais

  1. inflection of taire:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish tais (“damp”).[3]

Adjective

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tais (genitive singular masculine tais, genitive singular feminine taise, plural taise, comparative taise)

  1. damp, moist, humid
  2. soft, smooth, tender
  3. mild, gentle; kind, compassionate
  4. soft, weak, indulgent
Declension
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Declension of tais
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative tais thais taise;
thaise²
Vocative thais taise
Genitive taise taise tais
Dative tais;
thais¹ 		thais taise;
thaise²
Comparative níos taise
Superlative is taise

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

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Etymology 2

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Noun

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tais f (genitive singular taise, nominative plural taisí)

  1. Alternative form of taise (“doppelganger, fetch, wraith; shade, apparition, ghost”)
Declension
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Declension of tais

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tais taisí
Vocative a thais a thaisí
Genitive taise taisí
Dative tais taisí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tais na taisí
Genitive na taise na dtaisí
Dative leis an tais

don tais

leis na taisí

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tais thais dtais
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Latvian

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Pronoun

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tais

  1. in those; locative plural masculine of tas
  2. in those; locative plural feminine of tas

Occitan

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtajs]
  • Audio (Languedoc):(file)

Noun

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tais m (plural taisses)

  1. badger

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

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Determiner

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tais

  1. plural of tal

Etymology 2

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Noun

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tais m (uncountable)

  1. (rare) tais (a traditional woven textile of East Timor)

Etymology 3

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Shortening of estais, second-person plural present indicative of estar.

Verb

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tais

  1. Eye dialect spelling of estais.

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From German Teich.

Noun

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tais

  1. swamp

White Hmong

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Etymology

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From Thai ถ้วย (tûai) ("cup" or "bowl") or Lao ຖ້ວຍ (thuāi) ("cup" or "bowl").

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Noun

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tais

  1. basin
  2. dish, plate, bowl
  3. cup

References

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  • Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)
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