mair
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English mair, mare, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mair (not comparable)
Adverb
[edit]mair (not comparable)
Noun
[edit]mair (plural mairs)
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[edit]Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mair (present analytic maireann, future analytic mairfidh, verbal noun maireachtáil, past participle mairthe)
- live, remain, survive
- Go maire tú é.
- May you live to enjoy it.
- Maireann croí éadrom i bhfad. (proverb)
- A light heart lives long.
- Sláinte chuig na fir agus go maire na mná go deo! (popular toast)
- Health to the men and may the women live forever!
- 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, § 262, page 93:
- Nˈi:rˈ iNˈiʃ mˈə ə ʃkˈɛəl də nˈαχ ə mwerˈəN
- [níor inis mé an scéal go neach a maireannn]
- I did not tell the story to a soul alive
- last (“endure, hold out, continue”)
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 199:
- mŭȧŕə n wūn dūń kaiḱīš elə.
- [Mairfidh an mhóin dúinn coicís eile.]
- The turf will last us another fortnight.
Conjugation
[edit]* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Alternative verbal nouns: maireachtaint, mairstean
Derived terms
[edit]- maireachtáil (“living (noun)”)
- go maire tú an lá (“happy birthday”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mair | mhair | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32
Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish mér, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.
Noun
[edit]mair f (genitive singular mair, plural meir)
Derived terms
[edit]- mair chass, mair choshey (“toe”)
- mair choshey veg, mair veg ny coshey (“little toe”)
- mair ny fainey (“ring finger”)
- mair veg (“little finger”)
- mair vooar (“middle finger”)
- mair-chlaare (“keyboard, fingerboard”)
- mair-chooilleeney (“masturbation”)
Mutation
[edit]Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mair | vair | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Occitan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mair f (plural mairs)
References
[edit]Scots
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From northern Middle English mare, from Old English māra (compare English more, and German mehr), from Proto-Germanic *maizô.
Adjective
[edit]mair (not comparable)
Adverb
[edit]mair (not comparable)
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English meyr, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”).
Noun
[edit]mair (plural mairs)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]From Old English mōr.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mair (plural mairs)
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish maraid, mairid (“persist, remain alive”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mair (past mhair, future mairidh, verbal noun mairsinn or maireann or maireachdainn, past participle mairte)
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