maile

See also: Maile and mailé

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Hawaiian mailebor.

English maile

Borrowed from Hawaiian maile.

Noun

maile (uncountable)

1. A flowering Hawaiian vine (Alyxia stellata), of the genus Alyxia, used to make lei.
   • 1910, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, page 165:

     All about the tents were ferns, while the fragrant maile trailed from every tree and bush […]

Etymology 2

Variant of mail.

Noun

maile (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of mail (“chainmail”).

References

• maile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alyxia stellata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Alyxia stellata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• email, Lamie, e-mail, Melia, ameli

Danish

Etymology

From English mail (“[delivery of] letters and small parcels”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛjlə/, [ˈmɛjlə]

Verb

maile (imperative mail, infinitive at maile, present tense mailer, past tense mailede, perfect tense er/har mailet)

1. e-mail (to compose and send an e-mail) [from 1989]

Synonyms

• e-maile

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

maile

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of mailen

Anagrams

• e-mail, email

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

maile

1. allative plural of maa

Etymology 2

Noun

maile

1. allative singular of mai

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛl/

Verb

maile

1. inflection of mailer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• email, émail
• mêlai

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɪ̯lə/, /ˈmeːlə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eːlə, -ɛɪ̯lə

Verb

maile

1. inflection of mailen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Gothic

Romanization

mailē

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌴

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *maile (“a fragrant vine or shrub”). Cognate with Tahitian maire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmai̯.le/, [ˈmɐj.le], [ˈmɛj.le] (rapid speech)

Noun

maile

1. (botany) maile

Derived terms

• Hāliʻimaile
• Kamaile
• Maile
• maile lau liʻi

Descendants

• → English: maile

Further reading

• maile in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

maile

1. alternative form of male (“bag”)

Etymology 2

Noun

maile

1. alternative form of mayle

Samoan

Noun

maile

1. dog

Tokelauan

Te maile (1).

Te maile (2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma.ˈi.le]
• Hyphenation: ma‧i‧le

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian [Term?]. Cognates include Samoan maile.

Noun

maile

1. dog (Canis familiaris)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *maile. Cognates include Hawaiian maile and Samoan maile.

Noun

maile

1. giant swordfern (Nephrolepis biserrata)

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 199