mawen

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Feom Old English magan (“stomachs”), plural of maga, from Proto-Germanic *maganiz, plural of *magô; equivalent to mawe +‎ -en (“plural suffix”).

Noun

mawen

  1. plural of mawe

Etymology 2

Verb

mawen

  1. Alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)

Etymology 3

Verb

mawen

  1. Alternative form of mowen (“to mow”)

Old English

Pronunciation

Verb

māwen

  1. plural present subjunctive of māwan

Participle

māwen

  1. past participle of māwan

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

Raymond Hickey (Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms) suggests the stress of /ˈwʊmən/ "woman" and /ˈwɪmɪn/ "women" was first shifted and the stressed vowel lengthened, yielding /wuˈmaːn/ and /wɪˈmiːn/, followed by apheresis to /maːn/ and /miːn/, followed by the formation of a medial glide, yielding the singular mawen /mawən/ "woman" and plural meyen /mɪjɪn/ "women".

Pronunciation

Noun

mawen (plural meyen or meines or moans)

  1. woman
    Coordinate term: man
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Yold mawn.
      Old woman.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56
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