maiszas

a large basket, hamper, maois-eisg, five hundred fish, Irish maois, Welsh mwys, hamper, five score herring, Cornish muis, moys; Scottish mese, five hundred herring, Norse meiss, box, wicker basket, meiss síld, barrel-herrings, Old High German meisa, a basket for the back; Lithuanian maiszas, sack, Church Slavonic me$$?chu$$u. The relationship, whether of affinity or borrowing, between Celtic and Teutonic, is doubtful. The Brittonic might come from Latin mensa, a table, and the Gadelic from the Norse.