má
third-person singular present indicative ofmít má
inflection ofmůj : feminine singular nominative / vocative neuter plural nominative / accusative / vocative má
first / third-person singular present ofmega má
feminine singular ofmao má class1/3 singular of? class2
mother Má nə̂ kwɔ̌' sim cwə́. ―Mother returned late from the market. Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al,Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002) má
love ,like má
love ,like Seemega .
má
first / third-person singular present indicative ofmega (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
má (weak verb ,third-person singular past indicative máði ,supine máð )
toblur , toefface [with accusative ] This verb needs aninflection-table template .
FromOld Irish mag , fromProto-Celtic *magos .
má f (genitive singular má ,nominative plural mánna )
plain ( expanse of land with relatively low relief ) ,champaign ( open countryside, or an area of open countryside ) FromOld Irish má , fromProto-Celtic *mā ,*ma (compareCornish andBreton ma, mar ), see there for more.
má (triggerslenition )
if Má chreideann sé an scéal sin tá sé saonta go maith. ―If he believes that story, he’s pretty gullible.even though 1939 ,Peig Sayers , “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, inMarie-Louise Sjoestedt ,Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études;270 ) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page193 :Nuair a fuair sé bás,má bhí Máire brónach bhí sí sásta d’fhonn is go mbeadh an captaen óg le pósadh aici. When he died,even though Máire was sad, she was satisfied in the hope that the young captain would marry her. Used in factual conditionals with the present or past indicative and takes the independent form of verbs that distinguish between dependent and independent forms. dá ( in counterfactual conditionals ) mura ( in negative sentences; ‘unless’ ) (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
má
about ,around Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ), “má ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959 ), “má ”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary , An Gúm“má ”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge,2013–2025 má
love ,like má (ma2 ,Zhuyin ㄇㄚˊ )
Hanyu Pinyin reading of吔 Hanyu Pinyin reading of嗍 Hanyu Pinyin reading of犘 Hanyu Pinyin reading of痲 / 痳 Hanyu Pinyin reading of菺 Hanyu Pinyin reading of蔴 / 麻 Hanyu Pinyin reading of蟆 ,蟇 Hanyu Pinyin reading of麻 má
I (subject),my Object andvocative pronouns are written as a suffix-ma .
FromProto-Celtic *mā ,*ma (compareCornish andBreton mar ), see there for more.
má (triggers lenition )
if Synonym: dïa For quotations using this term, seeCitations:má .
Followed by the present indicative if the condition is in the past or present; by the present subjunctive if the condition is in the future.
Irish:má Manx:my Scottish Gaelic:ma Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “3 má, ma ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940 ) [1909 ],D. A. Binchy andOsborn Bergin , transl.,A Grammar of Old Irish , Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation ofHandbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German),→ISBN , page558 ; reprinted2017 má
first / third-person singular present active indicative ofmega Icelandic:má Faroese:má Norwegian Nynorsk:må Norwegian Bokmål:må Old Swedish:mā Danish:må má
indefinite accusative singular ofmár Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguese maa , fromLatin malam .
má f sg
feminine singular ofmau má
love ,like má
love ,like má má
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FromProto-Vietic *-maːʔ , fromProto-Mon-Khmer . Cognate withTho [Cuối Chăm]maː³ ("cheek"),Arem umæːʔ ("gills"),Proto-Palaungic *cəmaːʔ ( “ cheek ” ) (whenceRiang [Sak]sᵊmɑʔ² ),Proto-Nicobarese *samaː (whenceCentral Nicobarese [Nancowry]shama ( “ jaw ” ) ) andBondo ǰama ("jaw").
This item might be an infixed form (nominalizing*-m- ) of the root*ca(ː)ʔ ( “ to eat ” ) , as suggested in Sidwell (2018).
(classifier cái ) má • (𦟐 )
( anatomy ) cheek Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading ofChinese 媽 ( “ mother ” ,SV :ma ) , ultimately a nursery word.Đại Nam quấc âm tự vị (1895) directly annotates this askêu theo tiếngKhách ("way of calling from Chinese") and it was also often paired withtía (another Chinese loan) to formtía má .
má • (媽 ,𦟐 )
( Southern Vietnam ) mother ;mom Synonyms: mạ ,mẹ ,mợ ,u ,bầm ,đẻ FromProto-Vietic *s-maːʔ , whence alsomạ ( “ rice seedlings ” ) , the form used in isolation.
Not related to the second element inrau má .
má • (𥡗 )
( only in compounds ) rice seedlings má
Seerau má ( “ Asiatic pennywort ” ) .