maw

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 2 Mapudungun 2.1 Noun

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɔː/, SAMPA: /mO:/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English maga, from Germanic *magē-, from Indo-European *mak- ‘bag, belly’. Cognate with Dutch maag, German Magen, Swedish mage; and (from Indo-European) with Welsh megin ‘bellows’, Russian мошна ‘pocket, bag’, Lithuanian mãkas ‘purse’.

[edit] Noun

maw (plural maws)

1. (archaic) the stomach, especially of an animal

   1667: So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw. — Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X

2. the upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature.

   1818: To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw — Keats, Endymion

3. any great, insatiable or perilous opening.

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[edit] Etymology 2

By shortening of mother

[edit] Noun

maw (plural maws)

1. (dialectal, colloquial) Mother.

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[edit] Mapudungun

[edit] Noun

maw (using Unified Alphabet)

1. rain