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Maisie (given name)

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Maisie, also spelt Maisy or other minor variations, is a feminine given name. It is the pet form of the Scottish Gaelic name Mairead or the Irish name Mairéad, which are the equivalent of the English name Margaret. The -ie is a diminutive suffix used in Scottish as well as Northern England English.[1]

Margaret is derived via French (Marguerite) and Latin (Margarita) from Ancient Greek: μαργαρίτης (margarítēs) meaning "pearl".[2] The Greek is borrowed from Indo-Iranian languages (Persian).[3][4][5]

People

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  • Maisey Rika (born 1982/1983), New Zealand singer, songwriter and composer

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Fictional characters

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  • Maisie, in the British comic strip The Perishers (1959–2006)
  • Maisie, the character loved by the protagonist in Rudyard Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed (1891)
  • Maisie, protagonist in the Rosa Mulholland novel Our Sister Maisie (1907)
  • Maisie Dobbs, protagonist in an ongoing series of detective novels by Jacqueline Winspear, from 2003
  • Maisie Farange, the protagonist in the Henry James novel What Maisie Knew (1897)
  • Maisie Lockwood, a supporting character in the Jurassic Park film franchise
  • Maisie MacKenzie, the kitten in the 1980s Scottish children's books by Aileen Paterson
    • Maisie Mac, the same character in the 2000-2003 British animated TV series Meeow! (Gaelic version: Meusaidh)
  • Maisie Raine, the title character of the eponymous 1998-1999 British TV drama series
  • Maisie Ravier, character played by Ann Sothern in ten films and a radio show (1939–1953) and by Janis Paige in a 1960 telemovie
  • Maisie Wylde, in the British TV soap opera Emmerdale

Other spellings

See also

References

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia; Hardcastle, Kate (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. The Oxford Reference Collection. OUP Oxford. p. 578. ISBN 978-0-19-157854-0. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Margaret" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 700.
  3. ^ George F. Kunz and Charles H. Stevenson, The Book of the Pearl: The History, Art, Science and Industry of the Queen of Gems (London and New York: MacMillan & Co., 1908), p. 305.
  4. ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger. "Persian Loanwords and Names in Greek". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  5. ^ Campbell, Mike (29 May 2020). "Meaning, origin and history of the name Margaret". Behind the Name. Retrieved 26 January 2023.