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Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish maigden, from Old English mæġden, from Proto-West Germanic *magadīn.
Pronunciation
Noun
maighdeann f (genitive singular maighdinn, plural maighdeannan)
- maid, maiden, virgin
- Synonyms: ainnir, cailin, gruagach, nighean, òigh, rìbhinn
- female servant
- chambermaid
- nymph
- last handful of a crop of corn cut off the land
- standard or bearer of driving-wheel (spinning-wheel)
- upright support of flyers of spinning-wheel
- beheading instrument
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