different between mailed vs maila

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?ld/

Etymology 1

From mail (“send by post”).

Verb

mailed

1. simple past tense and past participle of mail

Etymology 2

From mail (“chainmail; spot on a bird's feather”).

Adjective

mailed (comparative more mailed, superlative most mailed)

1. Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.
2. (rare) Spotted.

Verb

mailed

1. simple past tense and past participle of mail

Related terms

• mail

Anagrams

• Dameli, Imelda, medial

Finnish

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Swedish malj, from French mail, from Latin malleus. Metathesis took place in order to avoid the form *malja, which would have been homonymous with malja (“goblet, bowl, cup, chalice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?i?l?/, [?m?i?l?]
• Rhymes: -?il?
• Syllabification: mai?la

Noun

maila

1. (sports) an implement used to handle the object being played with, such as a ball or a puck; translation into English depends on the kind of implement and the particular sport
   1. (tennis, squash (sport), badminton) racket
   2. (baseball, cricket, pesäpallo) bat
   3. (field hockey or ice hockey) stick
   4. (golf) club
   5. (table tennis) paddle
   6. (polo, croquet) mallet
2. (pinball) flipper

Declension

References

Anagrams

• ilmaa, limaa, maali, malia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.la/

Verb

maila

1. third-person singular past historic of mailer

Anagrams

• lamai, Lamia

Hawaiian

Etymology

From mai (“hither”) +? l? (“there, then”)

Particle

maila

1. hither, this way, towards the speaker

Synonyms

• mai

Antonyms

• akula, aku