mailler

English

Etymology

From maille (variant of mail) +‎ -er.

Noun

mailler (plural maillers)

1. One who makes chainmail.
   • 2001 September 30, Wildduck, “Re: chainmail jewelry”, in rec.crafts.jewelry (Usenet):

     Well, to answer the question as our esteemed moderator has posed it, there are, as with any on-line special interest group, Web rings that will link you loosly to other maillers' sites. Chain maillers are also quite content to buy and sell advertising from one another, (banner ads and such). And if you become chummy with one--and do stuff distinct from that mailler's stuff--he or she would generally be happy to post a link to you on their Web page for the same consideration.

   • 2013, Karen Karon, Chain Maille Jewelry Workshop, →ISBN:

     Today's maillers are passionate about their craft […]

Anagrams

• millrea

French

Etymology

From maille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

mailler

1. to mesh
2. (intransitive, slang) to work, to pursue an activity for payment
   • 2020 October 14, “Plugged In”, 1PLIKÉ140 (lyrics), Fumez The Engineer (music)‎^[1], 2:10–2:13:

     […] des délits j’ai commis, j’aurais du lire des livres; J’l’ai faits pour mailler, j’l’ai pas fait pour l’délire

     About the crimes I committed, I should have read books; I did for the flizz, not for the fun.

Conjugation

Conjugation of mailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maillant /ma.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		maillé /ma.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	maille /maj/	mailles /maj/	maille /maj/	maillons /ma.jɔ̃/	maillez /ma.je/	maillent /maj/
	imperfect	maillais /ma.jɛ/	maillais /ma.jɛ/	maillait /ma.jɛ/	maillions /maj.jɔ̃/	mailliez /maj.je/	maillaient /ma.jɛ/
	past historic2	maillai /ma.je/	maillas /ma.ja/	mailla /ma.ja/	maillâmes /ma.jam/	maillâtes /ma.jat/	maillèrent /ma.jɛʁ/
	future	maillerai /maj.ʁe/	mailleras /maj.ʁa/	maillera /maj.ʁa/	maillerons /maj.ʁɔ̃/	maillerez /maj.ʁe/	mailleront /maj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	maillerais /maj.ʁɛ/	maillerais /maj.ʁɛ/	maillerait /maj.ʁɛ/	maillerions /ma.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	mailleriez /ma.jə.ʁje/	mailleraient /maj.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	maille /maj/	mailles /maj/	maille /maj/	maillions /maj.jɔ̃/	mailliez /maj.je/	maillent /maj/
	imperfect2	maillasse /ma.jas/	maillasses /ma.jas/	maillât /ma.ja/	maillassions /ma.ja.sjɔ̃/	maillassiez /ma.ja.sje/	maillassent /ma.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	maille /maj/	—	maillons /ma.jɔ̃/	maillez /ma.je/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “mailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.