maide

English

Noun

maide (plural maides)

1. Obsolete spelling of maid.

Anagrams

• Maedi, Media, aimed, amide, media

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠadʲə/

Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, nominative plural maidí)

1. stick
2. peg
3. baton
4. (nautical) rib, timber
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

Synonyms

• (stick):, slat
• (peg): tairne, pionna, bacán
• (stick, baton): bata
• (rib, timber): easna

Derived terms

• (golf): 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.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Middle Irish

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

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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-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