maisse

Estonian

Noun

maisse

  1. illative plural of maa

Noun

maisse

  1. illative singular of mai

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From mass + -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmasʲe/

Noun

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

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

  • Irish: maise
  • Scottish Gaelic: maise

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
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

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