maisse

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Estonian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

maisse

  1. illative plural of maa

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

maisse

  1. illative singular of mai

Old Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From mass +‎ -e.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

maisse f

  1. beauty
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 28c25
      Nipi cían a masse in choirp.
      The beauty of the body is not long-lasting.
      (literally, “Its beauty of the body…”)

Declension[edit]

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative maisseL
Vocative maisseL
Accusative maissiN
Genitive maisse
Dative maissiL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants[edit]

  • Irish: maise
  • Scottish Gaelic: maise

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
maisse
also mmaisse after a proclitic
maisse
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]