maile

See also: Maile and mailé

English

Wikispecies

Etymology 1

Noun

maile (plural mailes)

  1. A flowering Hawaiian vine, of the genus Alyxia, used to make lei.
    • 1910, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist (page 165)
      All about the tents were ferns, while the fragrant maile trailed from every tree and bush […]

Etymology 2

Variant of mail.

Noun

maile (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of mail (chainmail).

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From English mail (“[delivery of] letters and small parcels”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛjlə/, [ˈmɛjlə]

Verb

maile (imperative mail, infinitive at maile, present tense mailer, past tense mailede, perfect tense er/har mailet)

  1. e-mail (to compose and send an e-mail) [from 1989]

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

maile

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of mailen

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛl/

Verb

maile

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mailer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of mailer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mailer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of mailer
  5. second-person singular imperative of mailer

Anagrams

German

Verb

maile

  1. First-person singular present of mailen.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of mailen.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of mailen.
  4. Imperative singular of mailen.

Gothic

Romanization

mailē

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌴

Hawaiian

Noun

maile

  1. (botany) maile

Derived terms

Samoan

Noun

maile

  1. dog
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