different between maize vs maide

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi, from Proto-Arawak *marik?. Cognate with Arawak marisi, Wayuu maiki.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?z, IPA^(key): /me?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophone: maze

Noun

maize (countable and uncountable, plural maizes)

1. Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.

   • A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize. For it was maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.

Synonyms

• (Zea mays): corn (US English, Canadian English); green corn, Indian corn, sugar corn, sweet corn

Translations

Further reading

• maize on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zea mays on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *maiž-, an ablaut variant of *miež- (whence Latvian mieži (“barley”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mey?-, probably from the stem *h?meh?- (“to cut; to mow”) modified into *mey-, and with an added element *? (whence Proto-Baltic *ž, whence Latvian z). Cognates include Old Prussian mayse (“barley”) (misspelled as wayse in the 16th-century source), Old Iranian *maiz- "to sow".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [màjz?]

Noun

maize f (5th declension)

1. bread (foodstuff, baked from wheat, rye, sometimes corn)

2. bread dough

3. (poetic) cereals, cereal grains, especially rye, wheat

4. (figuratively) food, nutrition

5. (figuratively) essential, necessary element

6. (figuratively) livelihood, means of supporting oneself; work

Declension

Derived terms

• baltmaize, balta maize
• maizn?ca
• maiznieks, maizniece
• rupjmaize, rupja maize
• sviestmaize

References

English

Noun

maide (plural maides)

1. Obsolete spelling of maid

Anagrams

• Maedi, Media, aimed, amide, media

Estonian

Noun

maide

1. genitive plural of mai

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ad??/

Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, nominative plural maidí)

1. stick
2. peg
3. baton
4. (nautical) rib, timber
5. (golf) club

Declension

Synonyms

• (stick):, slat
• (peg): tairne, pionna, bacán
• (stick, baton): bata
• (rib, timber): easna

Derived terms

• (golf): maide gainimh (“sand wedge”), maide mór (“driver”)
• slis den seanmhaide (“chip off the old block”)

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle Irish

Noun

maide m

1. stick

Descendants

• Irish: maide
• Manx: maidjey
• Scottish Gaelic: maide

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mat??/

Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, plural maidean or maideachan)

1. wood, timber
2. stick
3. staff, cudgel

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “maide” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.