different between maize vs waterless
maize
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)
- 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)
- bread (foodstuff, baked from wheat, rye, sometimes corn)
- bread dough
- (poetic) cereals, cereal grains, especially rye, wheat
- (figuratively) food, nutrition
- (figuratively) essential, necessary element
- (figuratively) livelihood, means of supporting oneself; work
Declension
Derived terms
- baltmaize, balta maize
- maizn?ca
- maiznieks, maizniece
- rupjmaize, rupja maize
- sviestmaize
References
maize From the web:
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waterless
English
Etymology
From Middle English waterles, waterlees, from Old English wæterl?as (“waterless”), from Proto-Germanic *wat?rlausaz, equivalent to water +? -less. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woaterloos (“waterless”), West Frisian wetterleas (“waterless”), Dutch waterloos (“waterless”), German wasserlos (“waterless”), Swedish vattenlös (“waterless”), Icelandic vatnslaus (“waterless”).
Adjective
waterless (not comparable)
- Dry, arid, lacking water.
- Not requiring water.
Translations
waterless From the web:
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