maid

Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”). Cognate with Dutch meid and Magd.

• IPA^(key): /meɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: made

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maid (plural maids)

1. (dated or poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
2. A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎:

     She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

3. (archaic) A virgin, now female but originally one of either gender.
   • 1380+, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.

   • 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

     You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

Maid, in the sense of a girl or unmarried woman, is often used in the common (species) names of flowering plants.

• (young female person): damsel, maiden
• (female servant): handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maidservant
• (female cleaner): chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house)

• Dima, aim'd, amid, diam, diam.

From English maid, Middle English mayde, maide, abbreviation of maiden. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *magaþs (“maid, virgin”).

maid

1. A female servant or cleaner; a maidservant, a housemaid.

• (maid): katabang, muchacha, mutsatsa

Akin to Finnish maito.

maid

1. milk

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmajt/

maid

1. also, too

• Álgu database

See the etymology of the main entry.

maid

1. accusative and genitive plural of mii

• IPA^(key): /maðʲ/

·maid

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of maidid

Related to Finnish maito.

maid

1. milk

• hapanmaid
• pihtimaid
• rahtmaid
• maidnedal'

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “молоко”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika