different between maw vs craw
maw
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??/
- (US) IPA(key): /m?/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /m?/
- Homophones: more (non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English mawe, maghe, ma?e, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”). Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave,Norwegian mage (“stomach”)Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian ?????? (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”).
Noun
maw (plural maws)
- (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
- So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X:
- The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion
- To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion
- (slang, derogatory) The mouth.
- Synonyms: trap, yap
- Shut your maw!
- Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
- Appetite; inclination.
- Unless you had more maw to do me good.
Translations
Etymology 2
By shortening of mother
Noun
maw (plural maws)
- (dialect, colloquial) Mother.
Etymology 3
See mew (“a gull”),måke (“a gull”)
Noun
maw (plural maws)
- A gull.
Anagrams
- WMA, awm, mwa
Abinomn
Noun
maw
- butterfly
Cornish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæ?/
Noun
maw m
- boy
- Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.
- I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.
- Me a wrug desky Kernowak termyn me ve maw.
Synonyms
- mab
Mapudungun
Noun
maw (using Unified Alphabet)
- rain
Middle English
Noun
maw
- Alternative form of mawe (“stomach”)
Somali
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic *ma?-/*mi?- (to be wet) from Proto-Afroasiatic *ma?-. Compare Egyptian mw, Aasax ma?a, also Dahalo ma?a; Hebrew ???? (máyim),
Classical Syriac ???? (mayy?) and Somali maanyo and Somali ma'wi.
Noun
maw m (plural mawooyin m)
- water container, water-jar
Reference
- Annarita Puglielli; Cabdalla Cumar Mansuur (2012) , “ma'wi”, in Qamuuska af-Soomaaliga, ?ISBN, page 613
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craw
English
Etymology
Akin to Middle Low German krage (“neck, collar”) (whence Danish krave and German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga ("neck") (whence Dutch kraag). See crag (Etymology 2).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k???/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
craw (plural craws)
- (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
- The crop of a bird.
Translations
Synonyms
- crop
- gullet
Derived terms
- stick in one’s craw
Verb
craw (third-person singular simple present craws, present participle crawing, simple past and past participle crawed)
- (archaic) To caw, crow.
Anagrams
- WRAC
Middle English
Noun
craw
- Alternative form of crowe
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