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.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmˠadʲə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈmˠædʲə/[2]

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
Declension of maide

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative maide maidí
Vocative a mhaide a mhaidí
Genitive maide maidí
Dative maide maidí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an maide na maidí
Genitive an mhaide na maidí
Dative leis an maide

don mhaide

 leis na maidí

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.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32

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/, /ˈmatʃə/
  • (Barra, Gairloch, Argyll, Perthshire) IPA(key): /ˈmɛtʲə/, /ˈmɛtʃə/

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 mydhe
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:
      A maide vrem a Bearlough,
      [A maiden from the Bearlough,]

References
  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 18
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