máistreás

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Irish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman maistresse.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

máistreás f (genitive singular máistreása, nominative plural máistreásaí)

  1. mistress (woman of authority; female teacher, governess)
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 198:
      Do chuireas le fán an tsaoghail mo mháighistir agus mo mháighistreás, agus níl fios agam an béo nó marbh iad.
      I have sent my master and my mistress wandering, and I don’t know if they’re dead or alive.
  2. wife, missus

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Mutation[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maigistreás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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