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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *maganą.
Verb
*magan
- to be able, may
Inflection
*mag, *maht, *magun, *mahtā
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
In all descendants but Old English, the infinitive/plural stem vowel was replaced with u (even then, most Middle English forms are from an Old English *mugan).