FromOld Irishmaisse(“goodliness, comeliness, fineness”), frommass(“fine, handsome, goodly”).
maise f (genitive singularmaise)
- adornment,beauty
- becomingness,comeliness
- becoming state or act
- grace
- ornament
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
maise f sg
- genitivesingular ofmais
Seemuise.
maise!
- Alternative form ofmuise
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “maise”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “maise”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge,2013-2025
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “maise”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maise”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931)Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page57
FromOld Irishmaisse(“goodliness, comeliness, fineness”), frommass(“fine, handsome, goodly”) (cognate toEnglishmeasure,meet,mete,Germanmässig(“moderate”)).
maise f
- beauty,grace,elegance,charm
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “maise”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited,→ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maise”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
