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maid

English

Etymology

From Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (maid, virgin).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me?d/
  • Rhymes: -e?d
  • Homophone: made

Noun

maid (plural maids)

  1. (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
  2. A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
  3. (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
    • 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
      Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
    • 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
      You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

Usage notes

Maid, in the sense of a girl or unmarried woman, is often used in the common (species) names of flowering plants.

Synonyms

  • (young female person): damsel, maiden
  • (female servant): ancilla, handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maiden, maidservant, servingmaid, servingwoman, womanservant
  • (female cleaner): chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house), cleaning lady (in a house)

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Dima, Madi, aim'd, amid, diam, diam.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English maid, Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (maid, virgin).

Noun

maid

  1. A female servant or cleaner; a maidservant, a housemaid.

Synonyms

  • (maid): katabang, muchacha, mutsatsa

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

maid

  1. partitive plural of maa

Etymology 2

Noun

maid

  1. partitive singular of mai
  2. nominative plural of mai

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish maito.

Noun

maid

  1. milk

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?majt/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

maid

  1. also, too
Further reading
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronoun

maid

  1. accusative/genitive plural of mii

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mað?/

Verb

·maid

  1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of maidid

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish maito.

Noun

maid

  1. milk

Inflection

Derived terms

  • hapanmaid
  • pihtimaid
  • rahtmaid
  • maidnedal'

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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manid

English

Noun

manid (plural manids)

  1. (zoology) Any species of the genus Manis, or family Manidae.

Anagrams

  • Admin., Mdina, Midan, Minda, admin, admin., amind, danim, mandi

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of (if) +? (not) +? is (is)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?man?ið?/

Verb

manid

  1. if (it) is not
    • 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. 10d26

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