tais
English
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛ/
Verb
tais
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t̪ˠaʃ/
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)
Declension
Declension of tais
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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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”)
Noun
tais f (genitive singular taise, nominative plural taisí)
- Alternative form of taise (“doppelganger, fetch, wraith; shade, apparition, ghost”)
Declension
Declension of tais
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tais | thais | dtais |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- "tais" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “1 tais” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Latvian
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- taes (obsolete)
Tok Pisin
White Hmong
References
- Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)
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