tais

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

English

Noun

tais (plural tais)

A traditional woven cloth produced by women in East Timor.

Anagrams

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

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛ/

Verb

tais

first-person singular present indicative of taire
second-person singular present indicative of taire
second-person singular imperative of taire

Anagrams

sait

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)

Declension

Declension of tais

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	tais	thais	taise; thaise²
Vocative	thais	thais	taise
Genitive	thais	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

Terms derived from tais

barrthais (“soft-limbed; moist on surface”, adjective)

tais- (“moist, hygro-”)

taisdíonach (“damp-proof”)

Etymology 2

Noun

tais f (genitive singular taise, nominative plural taisí)

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.

Latvian

Pronoun

tais

in those; locative plural masculine form of tas
in those; locative plural feminine form of tas

Occitan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtajs]

Noun

tais m (plural taisses)

badger

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

taes (obsolete)

Pronoun

tais

plural of tal

Etymology 2

Noun

tais m (uncountable)

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

Tok Pisin

Noun

tais

swamp

White Hmong

Noun

tais

References

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

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