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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)
- (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
- A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
- (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.
- 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
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
- A female servant or cleaner; a maidservant, a housemaid.
Synonyms
- (maid): katabang, muchacha, mutsatsa
Estonian
Etymology 1
Noun
maid
- partitive plural of maa
Etymology 2
Noun
maid
- partitive singular of mai
- nominative plural of mai
Ludian
Etymology
Akin to Finnish maito.
Noun
maid
- 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
- 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
- accusative/genitive plural of mii
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mað?/
Verb
·maid
- third-person singular present indicative conjunct of maidid
Veps
Etymology
Related to Finnish maito.
Noun
maid
- 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)
- (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 má (“if”) +? ní (“not”) +? is (“is”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?man?ið?/
Verb
manid
- 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
- 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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