maide

English

Noun

maide (plural maides)

  1. Obsolete spelling of maid

Anagrams

Estonian

Noun

maide

  1. genitive plural of mai

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmˠadʲə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈmˠædʲə/

Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, nominative plural maidí)

  1. stick
    Synonyms: bata, slat
  2. peg
    Synonyms: tairne, pionna, bacán
  3. baton
    Synonym: bata
  4. (nautical) rib, timber
    Synonym: easna
  5. (golf) club

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
maide mhaide not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mazdyo- (“stick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *masdo-, see also Proto-Germanic *mastaz, Latin malus (“pole”), or possibly instead borrowed from a pre-Indo-European substrate.

Noun

maide m

  1. stick

Descendants

  • Irish: maide
  • Manx: maidjey
  • Scottish Gaelic: maide

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
maidemaide
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmatʲə/

Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, plural maidean or maideachan)

  1. wood, timber
  2. stick
  3. staff, cudgel

Derived terms

  • aon-mhaide (“simultaneous pull”)
  • cas-mhaide (“wooden leg”)
  • ceann-maide (“block, blockhead”)
  • clàr-maide (“stick laid across a doorway to close up the space between door and floor and exclude wind”)
  • each-maide (“mason's tress”)
  • làir-mhaide (“see-saw”)
  • maide a' bhallain (“stick run through the handles of a tub when carrying it”)
  • maide a' bhuntàta (“stick for mashing potatoes”)
  • maide meatair (“metre stick”)
  • maide-briste (“broken stick; pair of tongs formed of a broken stick”)
  • maide-builg (“bilge-piece of boat”)
  • maide-buinn (“base or stock of a spinning-wheel”)
  • maide-ceangail (“piece of wood joining the two beams of the rafters of a house”)
  • maide-coire (“spirtle”)
  • maide-crois (“crutch”)
  • maide-doichill (“stick placed across a doorway instead of closing the door, when people were dining”)
  • maide-droma (“roof tree”)
  • maide-feannaig (“projecting piece of wood which appears above the thatch at each end of a blackhouse”)
  • maide-frasaidh (“stick used for separating the ears of corn from the sheaves”)
  • maide-leigidh (“weaver's turning-stick”)
  • maide-lunndaidh (“lever, handspike”)
  • maide-measg (“boy's top”)
  • maide-meidhe (“beam of a balance”)
  • maide-milis (“liquorice”)
  • maide-nigheadaireachd (“washing-stick”)
  • maide-poit (“thivel, pot-stick, spirtle”)
  • maide-reang (“stringer of a boat; ladder-step”)
  • maide-singlidh (“single-stick”)
  • maide-snìomh (“distaff”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
maidemhaide
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “maide”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Yola

Noun

maide

  1. Alternative form of mydhen
    • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX:
      A maide vrem a Bearlough,
      ———————————

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 130
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