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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
- plural of mawe
Etymology 2
Verb
mawen
- Alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)
Etymology 3
Verb
mawen
- Alternative form of mowen (“to mow”)
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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)
- woman
- Coordinate term: man
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
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