tais

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tais (plural tais)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /tɛ/

tais

1. inflection of taire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• sait

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɑʃ/^[1]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠaʃ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠæʃ/^[2]

From Old Irish tais (“damp”).^[3]

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

tais f (genitive singular taise, nominative plural taisí)

1. Alternative form of taise (“doppelganger, fetch, wraith; shade, apparition, ghost”)

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.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

tais

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈtajs]

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tais m (plural taisses)

1. badger

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ajs, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ajʃ
• Homophone: tás (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: tais

• taes (obsolete)

tais

1. plural of tal

tais m (uncountable)

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

Shortening of estais, second-person plural present indicative of estar.

tais

1. Eye dialect spelling of estais.

From German Teich.

tais

1. swamp

From Thai ถ้วย (tûai) ("cup" or "bowl") or Lao ຖ້ວຍ (thuāi) ("cup" or "bowl").

• IPA^(key): /tai̯˩/

tais

1. basin
2. dish, plate, bowl
3. cup

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