FeomOld Englishmagan(“stomachs”), plural ofmaga, fromProto-Germanic*maganiz, plural of*magô; equivalent tomawe +‎-en(“plural suffix”).

mawen

1. plural ofmawe

mawen

1. Alternative form ofmowen(“to be able to”)

mawen

1. Alternative form ofmowen(“to mow”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.wen/

māwen

1. pluralpresentsubjunctive ofmāwan

māwen

1. pastparticiple ofmāwan

• mawn,moan

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 byapheresis to /maːn/ and /miːn/, followed by the formation of a medial glide, yielding the singularmawen /mawən/ "woman" and pluralmeyen /mɪjɪn/ "women".

• IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• Homophone:moan

mawen (pluralmoansormeyenormeines)

1. woman

   Coordinate term:man

   • 1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Yoldmawn.

     Oldwoman.

• 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, published1867,page56

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