maise
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish maisse (“goodliness, comeliness, fineness”), from mass (“fine, handsome, goodly”).
Noun edit
maise f (genitive singular maise)
- adornment, beauty
- becomingness, comeliness
- becoming state or act
- grace
- ornament
Declension edit
Declension of maise
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
maise f sg
Etymology 3 edit
See muise.
Interjection edit
maise!
- Alternative form of muise
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
maise | mhaise | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “maise”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “maise”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “maise”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 57
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish maisse (“goodliness, comeliness, fineness”), from mass (“fine, handsome, goodly”) (cognate to English measure, meet, mete, German mässig (“moderate”)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
maise f
Derived terms edit
- nota-maise (“grace note”)
- maiseach (“beautiful, lovely, handsome, fair”)
- maiseadail
- maise-ghnùise
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
maise | mhaise |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “maise”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maise”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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