# maide
## English
### Noun

maide (plural maides)
* Obsolete spelling of maid.

### Anagrams

* Maedi, Media, aimed, amide, media

## Estonian
### Noun

maide
* genitive plural of mai

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Mayo) IPA: /ˈmˠadʲə/
* (Cois Fharraige) IPA: /ˈmˠadʲə/, [ˈmˠaːdʲə]
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈmˠædʲə/

### Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, nominative plural maidí)
* stick
    Synonyms: bata, slat
* peg
    Synonyms: tairne, pionna, bacán
* baton
    Synonym: bata
* (nautical) rib, timber
    Synonym: easna
* (golf) club

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
maide
maidí
vocative
a mhaide
a mhaidí
genitive
maide
maidí
dative
maide
maidí
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an maide
na maidí
genitive
an mhaide
na maidí
dative
leis an maide don mhaide
leis na maidí :

#### Derived terms

* maide briste (“tongs”)
* maide gainimh (“sand wedge”)
* maide mór (“driver”)
* slis den seanmhaide (“chip off the old block”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 129, page 68
* ↑ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 56, page 15
* ↑ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 358, page 74, line 56
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “maide”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Middle Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mazdyo- (“stick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *masdo-, see also Proto-Germanic *mastaz, Latin malus (“pole”), or possibly instead borrowed from a pre-Indo-European substrate.

### Noun

maide m
* stick

#### Descendants

* Irish: maide
* Manx: maidjey
* Scottish Gaelic: maide

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Matasović, Ranko (2009) “mazdyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 260-61

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish maide.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmatʲə/, /ˈmatʃə/
* (Barra, Gairloch, Argyll, Perthshire) IPA: /ˈmɛtʲə/, /ˈmɛtʃə/

### Noun

maide m (genitive singular maide, plural maidean or maideachan)
* wood, timber
* stick
* staff, cudgel

#### Derived terms

* aon-mhaide (“simultaneous pull”)
* cas-mhaide (“wooden leg”)
* ceann-maide (“block, blockhead”)
* clàr-maide (“stick laid across a doorway to close up the space between door and floor and exclude wind”)
* each-maide (“mason's tress”)
* làir-mhaide (“see-saw”)
* maide a' bhallain (“stick run through the handles of a tub when carrying it”)
* maide a' bhuntàta (“stick for mashing potatoes”)
* maide meatair (“metre stick”)
* maide-briste (“broken stick; pair of tongs formed of a broken stick”)
* maide-builg (“bilge-piece of boat”)
* maide-buinn (“base or stock of a spinning-wheel”)
* maide-ceangail (“piece of wood joining the two beams of the rafters of a house”)
* maide-coire (“spirtle”)
* maide-crois (“crutch”)
* maide-doichill (“stick placed across a doorway instead of closing the door, when people were dining”)
* maide-droma (“roof tree”)
* maide-feannaig (“projecting piece of wood which appears above the thatch at each end of a blackhouse”)
* maide-frasaidh (“stick used for separating the ears of corn from the sheaves”)
* maide-leigidh (“weaver's turning-stick”)
* maide-lunndaidh (“lever, handspike”)
* maide-measg (“boy's top”)
* maide-meidhe (“beam of a balance”)
* maide-milis (“liquorice”)
* maide-nigheadaireachd (“washing-stick”)
* maide-poit (“thivel, pot-stick, spirtle”)
* maide-reang (“stringer of a boat; ladder-step”)
* maide-singlidh (“single-stick”)
* maide-snìomh (“distaff”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

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

## Yola
### Noun

maide
* Alternative form of mydhe
** 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:A maide vrem a Bearlough,[A maiden from the Bearlough,]

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 18