mailler
English
Etymology
From maille (variant of mail) + -er.
Noun
mailler (plural maillers)
- One who makes chainmail.
- 2001 September 30, "Wildduck" (username), Re: chainmail jewelry, in rec.crafts.jewelry, Usenet:
- Well, to answer the question as our esteemed moderator has posed it, there are, as with any on-line special interest group, Web rings that will link you loosly to other maillers' sites. Chain maillers are also quite content to buy and sell advertising from one another, (banner ads and such). And if you become chummy with one--and do stuff distinct from that mailler's stuff--he or she would generally be happy to post a link to you on their Web page for the same consideration.
- 2013, Karen Karon, Chain Maille Jewelry Workshop, →ISBN:
- Today's maillers are passionate about their craft […]
- 2001 September 30, "Wildduck" (username), Re: chainmail jewelry, in rec.crafts.jewelry, Usenet:
Anagrams
- millrea
French
Etymology
maille + -er.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
mailler
- to mesh
- (intransitive, slang) to work, to pursue an activity for payment
- 2020 October 14, 1PLIKÉ140 (lyrics), Fumez The Engineer (music), “Plugged In”, 2:10–2:13:
- […] des délits j'ai commis, j'aurais du lire des livres; J'l'ai faits pour mailler, j'l'ai pas fait pour l'délire
- About the crimes I committed, I should have read books; I did for the flizz, not for the fun.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of mailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mailler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | maillant /ma.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | maillé /ma.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | maille /maj/ | mailles /maj/ | maille /maj/ | maillons /ma.jɔ̃/ | maillez /ma.je/ | maillent /maj/ |
| imperfect | maillais /ma.jɛ/ | maillais /ma.jɛ/ | maillait /ma.jɛ/ | maillions /maj.jɔ̃/ | mailliez /maj.je/ | maillaient /ma.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | maillai /ma.je/ | maillas /ma.ja/ | mailla /ma.ja/ | maillâmes /ma.jam/ | maillâtes /ma.jat/ | maillèrent /ma.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | maillerai /maj.ʁe/ | mailleras /maj.ʁa/ | maillera /maj.ʁa/ | maillerons /maj.ʁɔ̃/ | maillerez /maj.ʁe/ | mailleront /maj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | maillerais /maj.ʁɛ/ | maillerais /maj.ʁɛ/ | maillerait /maj.ʁɛ/ | maillerions /ma.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | mailleriez /ma.jə.ʁje/ | mailleraient /maj.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | maille /maj/ | mailles /maj/ | maille /maj/ | maillions /maj.jɔ̃/ | mailliez /maj.je/ | maillent /maj/ |
| imperfect2 | maillasse /ma.jas/ | maillasses /ma.jas/ | maillât /ma.ja/ | maillassions /ma.ja.sjɔ̃/ | maillassiez /ma.ja.sje/ | maillassent /ma.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | maille /maj/ | — | maillons /ma.jɔ̃/ | maillez /ma.je/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “mailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.