mawn
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mawn (plural mawns)
- (Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders[1], Harper & Brothers, page 173:
- An apple-mill and press had been erected on the spot, to which some men were bringing fruit from divers points in mawn-baskets, while others were grinding them, and others wringing down the pomace, whose sweet juice gushed forth into tubs and pails.
- A ghost.
- 2006, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson[2], University of Adelaide, archived from the original on 10 October 2010, page 7:
- None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, ‘the spirit of the deceased would seize them’.
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Brythonic *mọn, from Proto-Celtic *mānis (compare Irish móin), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“wet”).
Noun edit
mawn m (collective, singulative mawnen)
Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
mawn | fawn | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
mawn
- Nasal mutation of bawn.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bawn | fawn | mawn | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Yola edit
Noun edit
mawn
- Alternative form of mawen
References edit
- 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