tais

See also: Tais, Taís, taís, täis, tăiș, and tais-

English

Etymology

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Noun

tais (plural tais)

1. A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor.

Anagrams

• -ista, Asti, IAST, IATs, Sati, Sita, Stai, TIAS, TIAs, Tisa, Tsai, aits, itas, sati

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ/

Verb

tais

1. inflection of taire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• sait

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠaʃ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠæʃ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish tais (“damp, moist; soft, smooth; gentle, kind, easy; weak, feeble, spiritless, timid”).

Adjective

tais (genitive singular masculine tais, genitive singular feminine taise, plural taise, comparative taise)

1. damp, moist, humid
2. soft, smooth, tender
3. mild, gentle; kind, compassionate
4. soft, weak, indulgent

Declension

Declension of tais

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	tais	thais	taise; thaise²
Vocative	thais		taise
Genitive		taise	taise	tais
Dative	tais; thais¹	thais	taise; thaise²
Comparative	níos taise
Superlative	is taise

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• barrthais (“soft-limbed; moist on surface”, adjective)
• tais- (“moist, hygro-”)
• taisdíonach (“damp-proof”)
• taisleach

Etymology 2

Noun

tais f (genitive singular taise, nominative plural taisí)

1. Alternative form of taise (“doppelganger, fetch, wraith; shade, apparition, ghost”)

Declension

Declension of tais

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tais taisí Vocative a thais a thaisí Genitive taise taisí Dative tais taisí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tais na taisí Genitive na taise na dtaisí Dative leis an tais don tais leis na taisí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tais	thais	dtais
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 tais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 32
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 40

Latvian

Pronoun

tais

1. in those; locative plural masculine form of tas
2. in those; locative plural feminine form of tas

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtajs]

• Audio (Languedocien)

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Noun

tais m (plural taisses)

1. badger

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtajs/ [ˈtaɪ̯s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtajs/ [ˈtaɪ̯s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtajʃ/ [ˈtaɪ̯ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtajʃ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
• Homophone: tás (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: tais

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• taes (obsolete)

Determiner

tais

1. plural of tal

Etymology 2

Noun

tais m (uncountable)

1. (rare) tais (a traditional woven textile of East Timor)

Etymology 3

Shortening of estais, second-person plural present indicative of estar.

Verb

tais

1. Eye dialect spelling of estais.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From German Teich.

Noun

tais

1. swamp

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tai̯˩/

Noun

tais

1. basin
2. dish, plate
3. cup

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)