maech

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *māg, from Proto-West Germanic *māg.

Noun

mâech m

1. blood relative

Inflection

Declension of maech (strong)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	maech	maeche
accusative	maech	maeche
genitive	maeches	maeche
dative	maeche	maechen

Descendants

• Dutch: maag

Further reading

• “maech”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “maech”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN