From pre-Germanic*magʰ-ot-(i-), a feminine derivative of *maguz(“boy”) (with the suffix also seen in *brūdiz(“bride”)),[1] but this pair of words is likely of foreign or substrate origin, as is the likely cognate Proto-Celtic*magot-axtā(“young girl, servant girl”).
^ Ringe, Donald (2006), From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[2], 1st edition, Oxford: University Press, →ISBN, page 279: “*magaþ-”
^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 148: “PGmc, PWGmc *magaþ-”
