mawn

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English

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Noun

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mawn (plural mawns)

  1. (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.
  2. 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

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Brythonic *mọn, from Proto-Celtic *mānis (compare Irish móin), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (wet).

Noun

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mawn m (collective, singulative mawnen)

  1. peat
Derived terms
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Mutation

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Welsh mutation
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

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Verb

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mawn

  1. Nasal mutation of bawn.

Mutation

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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

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Noun

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mawn

  1. Alternative form of mawen

References

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  • 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