tais

See also: Tais, Taís, taís, täis, tăiș, and tais-

English

Etymology

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Noun

tais (plural tais)

  1. A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɛ/

Verb

tais

  1. inflection of taire:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t̪ˠaʃ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /t̪ˠæʃ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish tais (“damp, moist; soft, smooth; gentle, kind, easy; weak, feeble, spiritless, timid”).

Adjective

tais (genitive singular masculine tais, genitive singular feminine taise, plural taise, comparative taise)

  1. damp, moist, humid
  2. soft, smooth, tender
  3. mild, gentle; kind, compassionate
  4. soft, weak, indulgent
Declension
Declension of tais
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative tais thais taise;
thaise²
Vocative thais taise
Genitive taise taise tais
Dative tais;
thais¹		 thais taise;
thaise²
Comparative níos taise
Superlative is taise

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Noun

tais f (genitive singular taise, nominative plural taisí)

  1. Alternative form of taise (“doppelganger, fetch, wraith; shade, apparition, ghost”)
Declension
Declension of tais

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tais taisí
Vocative a thais a thaisí
Genitive taise taisí
Dative tais taisí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tais na taisí
Genitive na taise na dtaisí
Dative leis an tais

don tais

 leis na taisí

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tais thais dtais
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Latvian

Pronoun

tais

  1. in those; locative plural masculine form of tas
  2. in those; locative plural feminine form of tas

Occitan

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtajs]
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Noun

tais m (plural taisses)

  1. badger

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
  • Homophone: tás (Brazil)
  • Hyphenation: tais

Alternative forms

Determiner

tais

  1. plural of tal

Noun

tais m (uncountable)

  1. (rare) tais (a traditional woven textile of East Timor)

Etymology 3

Shortening of estais, second-person plural present indicative of estar.

Verb

tais

  1. Eye dialect spelling of estais.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From German Teich.

Noun

tais

  1. swamp

White Hmong

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tai̯˩/

Noun

tais

  1. basin
  2. dish, plate
  3. cup

References
  • Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)
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