maye

maye (past mighte)

1. Obsolete spelling of may.
   • 1915, Laban Miles Hoffman, “Preface”, in Our Kin, Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families‎^[1], Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., published 1980, →OCLC, page 9:

     It is no part of my purpose to make gain from this work. I had hoped to publish it in permanent form and distribute it among my friends as a present but it has grown to such proportions that that will not be practicable and I do hope that I maye be able to sell enough copies at about cost to materially assist in the publication.

• Amey, Amye, ay me, ayme

From Arabic مَائِع (māʔiʕ).

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maye (definite accusative mayeni, plural mayelər)

1. liquid, fluid

maye (comparative daha maye, superlative ən maye)

1. liquid

   Antonym: sərt

• “maye” in Obastan.com.

maye class 6

1. plural of dzaye

• IPA^(key): /màː.jéː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [màː.jéː]

mā̀yē m (possessed form mā̀yen)

1. intoxication, drunkenness

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 154.

maye

1. inflection of mayar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

IPA^(key): /mʱájʱêː/

maye

1. beware!, look out!, oh my!
2. eish!
3. yippee!

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “maye”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “maye (8-3.8-3-8)”