maide

English

Noun

maide (plural maides)

1. Obsolete spelling of maid.

Anagrams

• Maedi, Media, aimed, amide, media

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Estonian

Noun

maide

1. genitive plural of mai

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠadʲə/
• 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

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

• maide gainimh (“sand wedge”)
• maide mór (“driver”)
• slis den seanmhaide (“chip off the old block”)

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 32

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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
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
maide	maide pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “mazdyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 260-61

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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
maide	mhaide
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

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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,

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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 130