tais

tais

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

English

Noun

tais (plural tais)

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

Anagrams

• -ista, Asti, IAST, IATs, Sati, Sita, TIAS, TIAs, Tisa, Tsai, aits, itas, sati

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ/

Verb

tais

1. first-person singular present indicative of taire
2. second-person singular present indicative of taire
3. second-person singular imperative of taire

Anagrams

• sait

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠaʃ/

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

• barrthais (“soft-limbed; moist on surface”, adjective)
• tais- (“moist, hygro-”)
• taisdíonach (“damp-proof”)

 

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.

References

• "tais" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 tais” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Latvian

Pronoun

tais

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

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Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtajs]

Noun

tais m (plural taisses)

1. badger

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtajs/, /ˈtajʃ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtajʃ/

Alternative forms

• taes (obsolete)

Pronoun

tais

1. plural of tal

Noun

tais m (uncountable)

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

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Tok Pisin

Noun

tais

1. swamp

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White Hmong

Noun

tais

1. basin
2. dish, plate
3. cup

References

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