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maide

English

Noun

maide ‎(plural maides)

Obsolete spelling of maid

Anagrams

aimed, amide, Media, media

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmˠadʲə/

Noun

maide m ‎(genitive singular maide, nominative plural maidí)

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	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“maide” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Middle Irish

Noun

maide m

stick

Descendants

Irish: maide
Manx: maidjey
Scottish Gaelic: maide

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
maide	maide pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“maide” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmatʲə/

Noun

maide m ‎(genitive singular maide, plural maidean or maideachan)

Derived terms

Terms derived from maide

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

“maide” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9

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maide

maide

English

Noun

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Irish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

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Middle Irish

Noun

Descendants

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Noun

Derived terms

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