mawen

Feom Old English magan (“stomachs”), plural of maga, from Proto-Germanic *maganiz, plural of *magô; equivalent to mawe +‎ -en (“plural suffix”).

mawen

1. plural of mawe

mawen

1. alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)

mawen

1. alternative form of mowen (“to mow”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.wen/

māwen

1. plural present subjunctive of māwan

māwen

1. past participle of māwan

• mawn, moan

From earlier *mon, from Middle English wummon, from Old English wīfmon. Compare also kon, koan (“can”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• Homophone: moan

mawen (plural moans or meyen or meines)

1. woman

   Coordinate term: man

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

     Yold mawn.

     Old woman.

• 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