Talk:mawseed

etymology

I couldnt find any entry for Magsamen or even for Mag on the German wiktionary, but it's a believable cognate of the pan-Slavic word makŭ, either borrowed before Grimm's Law or just respelled. It's also possible that it's native ... Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mōhô looks like it could produce more or less the same result ... but that assumes that the root goes back all the way to PIE, which I would not expect unless we know that the flowers were already growing in the PIE homeland. —Soap— 02:10, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

https://woerterbuchnetz.de/ lists Mah and Mahn as alternate forms of Mohn (“poppy”) which could come from earlier /x/, and would explain how this word got ossified. I want to be more sure of what i'm looking at, though, since the entry for Mahn presents it as a wholly separate word, as though Mohn doesnt exist, rather than saying its an alternate form. —Soap— 02:48, 17 March 2023 (UTC)