mail – English noun declension

English noun forms of mail

Noun: mail
Singularmail
Pluralmails

Sample Sentences

  • What, loo, man, see here of dyce a bale; / A brydelynge caste for that is in thy male! [1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:]
  • Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure.
  • Lay out our golden wedges to the view,
  • That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:]
  • Meronym: mailpiece
  • Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.
  • 1823, The stranger in Liverpool; or, An historical and descriptive view of the town of Liverpool and its environs, Seventh Edition, T. Kaye, page 96,
  • The following are the hours at which the letter-box of this office is closed for making up the several mails, and the hours at which each mail is despatched: ¶ […]
  • 1887, John Houston Merrill (editor), The American and English Encyclopædia of Law, Volume I, Edward Thompson, p.121,
  • If he retains the account, and permits several mails to pass without objecting to it, he will be held to have admitted its correctness.
  • The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m. [1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:]
  • It should be in your mail today, unless the post office lost it!
  • All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by the mails. [1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:]
  • On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...]. [1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, pages 422, 425:]
  • As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon. [2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:]
  • He decided to send his declaration by mail.
  • Yahoo Mail has been providing mail service since 1997.
  • You've got mail [old audio clip announcing new email in the 1990s-2000s]
  • Please look through those mails and confirm whether you received the one about scheduling.
  • “Fetch me the little private mail with the padlocks, that I recommended to your particular charge — d'ye hear?” [1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *molko-der.?
3. Thracianbor.?
4. Proto-Germanic *malhō
5. Frankish *malhabor.
6. Medieval Latin malader.
7. Anglo-Norman malebor.
8. ▲
9. Old French malebor.
10. Middle English male
11. English mail
12. From Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (“bag, wallet”), from Frankish *malha (“bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch”). Compare Dutch maal. See: Middle English Nouns 'male', Dutch Nouns 'maal'.

Verbs referencing "mail"

Irish Nouns mála, Galician Nouns maleta, Russian Nouns мейл, Ukrainian Nouns мейл, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns malje, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns malje.