Noun: mais
Gender: Fem
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | mais |
| Singular Genitive | maise |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an mhais |
| Singular Genitive | na maise |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like mais
aeráid,
aibhléis,
aimhréidh,
aincis,
ainglis,
aispeist,
aithris,
anailís,
antaigin,
antasubstaint,
aoibh,
astraláib,
bail,
baint,
beiril,
bithcheimic,
bithmhais,
bleib,
braich,
broinn, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Irish mais, maiss, from Old Irish mass (“mass, lump”), from Latin massa (“mass, bulk; lump; dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”). See: Latin Nouns '
massa', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μᾶζα'.
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