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May

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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle EnglishMay,Mai, fromOld Frenchmai, fromLatinMaius(“Maia's month”), fromMaia, a Roman earth goddess.

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May (countable anduncountable,pluralMays)

EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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  2. The fifthmonth of theGregorian calendar, followingApril and precedingJune.
    Alternative form:5
    Holonyms:calendar year;year
    Comeronyms:January,February,March,April,June,July,August,September,October,November,December
    • Before 1789, "Bonny Barbara Allen," traditional ballad, collected in Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittridge (1886),The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. II, part II, p. 277:
      All in the merry month ofMay, / When green leaves they was springing, / This young man on his death-bed lay, / For the love of Barbara Allen.
    • 2014 July 1, Frank Jacobs, “Welcome to Stanistan”, inForeign Policy‎[1], archived fromthe original on3 August 2023:
      At a signing ceremony in the Kazakh capital, Astana, onMay 29, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan ratified the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) into existence. An EEU modeled on the European Union was first mooted back in 1994 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, but took off only after his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, seized upon its potential as a Moscow-centered, Asia-oriented alternative to the EU.
    • 2025 August 6, Rachel Dobkin, “Significant parts of the Constitution were quietly removed from the Congress website”, inThe Independent‎[2]:
      InMay, White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller told reporters the Trump administration is “looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus for migrants under claims of an “invasion.”
  3. A femalegiven name, usually pet name forMary andMargaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning.
    • 1856,E. D. E. N. Southworth,The Widow's Son, T. B. Peterson, published1867, page210:
      […] I will not send Owen's LilyMay to the almshouse." "Lily―what?" demanded Mrs. Morley rather sharply, for she was half provoked with what she mentally called Amy's whim of keeping the outcast child when she might send it to the asylum. "LilyMay," said Amy, smiling. "Her name is Mary, and we called her first Little Mary, and then LittleMay. But Owen calls her LilyMay."
    • 1982,Ruth Rendell,The Fever Tree and Other Stories, Hutchinson,→ISBN, page119:
      Their parents named them June andMay because their birthdays occurred in those months.[…]May was like the time of year in which she had been born, changeable, chilly and warm by turns, sullen yet able to know and show loveliness that couldn't last.
    • 2010,Margaret Forster,Isa & May, Chatto & Windus,→ISBN, page 5:
      It's an awkward name: Isamay, pronounced Is-a-may. Isa is my paternal grandmother's name (shortened from Isabel) andMay my maternal grandmother's (it comes, somehow, from Margaret). The amalgamation is, as you see, strictly alphabetical. Life, I feel, would have been much easier if they had chosen Maybel.
    • 2016 June 13, Hilary Bird, “Baby named Sahaiʔa prompts changes to Vital Statistics Act”, inCBC News‎[3], archived fromthe original on13 June 2016:
      SahaiʔaMay Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014. However, on her birth certificate, her name is spelled Sahai'a because the Northwest Territories government only allows the Roman alphabet to be used on official documents.
  4. Asurname from Middle English.
    1. Theresa May, former British prime minister.
  5. A number of places in theUnited States:
    1. A formersettlement inAmador County,California.
    2. Anunincorporated community inLemhi County,Idaho.
    3. Anunincorporated community inMcDonald County,Missouri.
    4. A smalltown inHarper County,Oklahoma.
    5. Anunincorporated community inBrown County,Texas.
    6. Anunincorporated community inPocahontas County,West Virginia.
    7. A number oftownships in theUnited States, listed underMay Township.
Usage notes
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  • May (orMae) is often used in conjoined names (e.g., Lillie Mae, Katie Mae, Fannie Mae).
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Terms derived fromMay
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Translations
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fifth month of the Gregorian calendar
hawthorn or its blossoms
given name

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Gregorian calendar monthsedit

Etymology 2

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The surname is converged from several origins:

Proper noun

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May (pluralMays)

  2. Asurname.

Anagrams

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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FromEnglishMay, fromMiddle English, fromOld English, fromOld Frenchmai, fromLatinmaius(“Maia's month”), fromMaia, a Roman earth goddess, possibly fromProto-Indo-European*magya(“she who is great”), fromProto-Indo-European base*meg-(“great”).

Proper noun

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May

  1. a femalegiven name from English
  2. asurname from English

Fijian

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Proper noun

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May

  1. May

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Middle French

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Noun

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May m (pluralMays)

  1. May (month)

Descendants

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  • French:mai
    • Guianese Creole:mè
    • Haitian Creole:me
    • → English:may
    • → Iranian Persian:مه(me)
    • Louisiana Creole:mê
    • → South Azerbaijani:مه(mə)
    • → Tunisian Arabic:ماي(mēy)

Norwegian

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FromEnglishMay.

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May

  1. a femalegiven name

Swedish

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FromEnglishMay.

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May c (genitiveMays)

  1. a femalegiven name

Tagalog

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Borrowed fromEnglishMay.

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May (Baybayin spellingᜋᜒᜌ᜔)

  1. a femalegiven name from English

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Frommay(“lucky”). CompareHạnh with the same meanings.

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May

  1. a femalegiven name
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