maile

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maile (uncountable)

1. A flowering Hawaiian vine (Alyxia stellata), 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 […]

Variant of mail.

maile (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of mail (“chainmail”).

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• Lamie, ameli, e-mail, email

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

• IPA^(key): /mɛjlə/, [ˈmɛjlə]

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]

• e-maile

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maile

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of mailen

• e-mail, email

maile

1. allative plural of maa

maile

1. allative singular of mai

• IPA^(key): /mɛl/

maile

1. inflection of mailer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• email, émail
• mêlai

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɪ̯lə/, /ˈmeːlə/

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• Rhymes: -eːlə, -ɛɪ̯lə

maile

1. inflection of mailen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

mailē

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌴

maile

1. (botany) maile

• Maile
• Kamaile
• maile lau liʻi

maile

1. Alternative form of male (“bag”)

maile

1. Alternative form of mayle

maile

1. dog

• IPA^(key): [ma.ˈi.le]
• Hyphenation: ma‧i‧le

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian [Term?]. Cognates include Samoan maile.

maile

1. dog (Canis familiaris)

From Proto-Polynesian *maile. Cognates include Hawaiian maile and Samoan maile.

maile

1. giant swordfern (Nephrolepis biserrata)

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 199