tais

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tais"

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

tais (plural tais)

  1. A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛ/

Verb

tais

  1. inflection of taire:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish tais (“damp”).[3]

Adjective

tais (genitive singular masculine tais, genitive singular feminine taise, plural taise, comparative taise)

  1. damp, moist, humid
  2. soft, smooth, tender
  3. mild, gentle; kind, compassionate
  4. soft, weak, indulgent
Declension
Declension of tais
Positive singular plural
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

Etymology 2

Noun

tais f (genitive singular taise, nominative plural taisí)

  1. alternative form of taise (“doppelganger, fetch, wraith; shade, apparition, ghost”)
Declension
Declension of tais (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tais taisí
vocative a thais a thaisí
genitive taise taisí
dative tais taisí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tais na taisí
genitive na taise na dtaisí
dative leis an tais
don tais 		leis na taisí

Mutation

Mutated forms of tais
radical lenition eclipsis
tais thais dtais

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Latvian

Pronoun

tais

  1. in those; locative plural masculine of tas
  2. in those; locative plural feminine of tas

Occitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtajs]
  • Audio (Languedoc):(file)

Noun

tais m (plural taisses)

  1. badger

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
  • Homophone: tás (Brazil)
  • Hyphenation: tais

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Determiner

tais

  1. plural of tal

Etymology 2

Noun

tais m (uncountable)

  1. (rare) tais (a traditional woven textile of East Timor)

Etymology 3

Shortening of estais, second-person plural present indicative of estar.

Verb

tais

  1. eye dialect spelling of estais

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From German Teich.

Noun

tais

  1. swamp

White Hmong

Etymology

From Thai ถ้วย (tûai) ("cup" or "bowl") or Lao ຖ້ວຍ (thuāi) ("cup" or "bowl").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tai̯˩/

Noun

tais

  1. basin
  2. dish, plate, bowl
  3. cup

References

  • Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)
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