mawn

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: môn, IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Noun

mawn (plural mawns)

1. (Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper.
2. A ghost.

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Welsh

Etymology 1

Noun

1. peat

Derived terms

• mawnbwll (“peat-pit”)
• mawndir (“peaty land”)
• mawnog (“peat-bog”)

Mutation

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

Verb

mawn

1. Nasal mutation of bawn.

Mutation

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.

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Yola

Noun

mawn

1. Alternative form of mawen

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)