Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of an animal. · The mouth and jaws of a furry. · The mouth. · Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
From Middle English mawe, maghe, maȝe, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian мошна́ (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”), Finnish maha (“stomach”), Estonian magu (“stomach”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionmaweenm
- Inherited-form mentionmagaang · stomach; maw
- Inherited-form mention*magōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*magôgem-pro · belly; stomach
- Derivation mention*mak-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionmagefy
- Cognate mentionmaagnl · stomach; belly
- Cognate mentionMagende · stomach
- Cognate mentionmaveda
- Cognate mentionmegincy · bellows
- Cognate mentionмошна́ru · pocket, bag
- Cognate mentionmãkaslt · purse
- Cognate mentionmahafi · stomach
- Cognate mentionmaguet · stomach
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