máis
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mais"
Fala
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- mais (Frades Gaspar's form)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese mais, from Latin magis (“more”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]máis
- most, -est (forms superlatives)
- 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 1: Lengua Española:
- O términu de Valverdi, mais grandi, limita con Portugal, precisamenti con dois distintius Departamentos, que eran Beira Alta con capital en Guarda, a Beira Baixa con capital en Castelo Branco.
- The Valverde locality, the biggest, borders Portugal, more precisely with two distinct departments, which were Beira Alta with Guarda as its capital, and Beira Baixa with Castelo Branco as its capital.
Determiner
[edit]máis
- more than what has been specified
- 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme VI, Chapter 1::
- Poin encontralsi, a o millol, hasta “oito” o mais.
- There can be found, at best, up to “eight” or more.
- yet another
- 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 2: Númerus?:
- As lenguas, idiomas, dialectus o falas tenin un-as funciós mui claras desde o principiu dos siglu i si hai contabilizaus en o mundu un-as 8.000 lenguas, ca un-a con sua importancia numérica relativa, a nossa fala é un tesoiru mais entre elas.
- The tongues, languages or regional variants have some very clear functions since the beginning of the centuries and some 8,000 languages have been accounted for in the world, each with its relative numerical importance, Fala is yet another treasure among them.
References
[edit]- Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin magis. Compare Portuguese mais.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]máis
- more, especially used in forming the superlative of adjectives
- obxectos máis modernos
- more modern objects
- punto máis alto
- higher point (literally "point more high")
Determiner
[edit]máis
- more, additional
- máis información
- more information
Usage notes
[edit]The accent disambiguates from the conjunction mais (“and, but”).
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “máis”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “máis”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “máis”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “máis”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]máis m
Portuguese
[edit]Adverb
[edit]máis (not comparable)
Categories:
- Fala terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Fala terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Fala terms inherited from Latin
- Fala terms derived from Latin
- Fala terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Fala/ai̯s
- Rhymes:Fala/ai̯s/1 syllable
- Fala lemmas
- Fala adverbs
- Fala terms with quotations
- Fala determiners
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/ajs
- Galician lemmas
- Galician adverbs
- Galician terms with usage examples
- Galician determiners
- Irish non-lemma forms
- Irish noun forms
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese adverbs
- Portuguese uncomparable adverbs
- Portuguese obsolete forms