Mais

• As an English surname (Durham), variant of Mayes.
• As a German surname, from the obsolete Middle High German meiz (“cleared land”).

Mais

1. A surname.

• IPA^(key): /maɪ̯s/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯s

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From Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi.

Mais m (strong, genitive Maises or Mais, no plural)

1. maize; corn (US)

   Synonyms: (Austria) Kukuruz, (archaic) türkischer Weizen, (archaic) türkisch Korn, (dated) Welschkorn

• In German-speaking Europe, maize is commonest as a fodder crop. In cuisine, it is generally regarded and used as a vegetable. Referring to it as a Getreide (“cereal”) may strike non-specialist German-speakers as unusual or wrong (though it is, of course, biologically correct).

• → Kashubian: majs

Mais

1. genitive singular of Mai

• “Mais” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mais” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Mais” in Duden online
• Mais on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Spanish maíz

Mais m (uncountable)

1. maize, sweetcorn

   Synonym: Tierkesche Weess