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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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daw
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: door (in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English dawe, from Old English d?we, from Proto-Germanic *d?h? (compare German Dahle, Dohle, dialectal Tach), from Proto-Indo-European *d??k?- (compare Old Prussian doacke (“starling”)).
Noun
daw (plural daws)
- A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Mr Killigrew
- The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws / The whole assembly of his fellow daws.
- […] But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
- For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To Mr Killigrew
- (obsolete) An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p.
- ‘Of course I do, you great daw.’ She kissed his beautiful mouth and moved his fringe out of his eyes.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p.
Synonyms
- jackdaw (Eurasian jackdaw, European jackdaw, western jackdaw)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English dawen, from Old English dagian (“to dawn”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag?n, from Proto-Germanic *dag?n? (“to become day, dawn”), from *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??- (“to burn”). More at day, dawn.
Verb
daw (third-person singular simple present daws, present participle dawing, simple past and past participle dawed)
- (obsolete outside Scotland) To dawn.
- (obsolete) To wake (someone) up.
- (obsolete) To daunt; to terrify.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Derived terms
- adaw
- bedaw
Translations
Anagrams
- -wad, ADW, AWD, WAD, wad
Bikol Central
Particle
daw
- marks a sentence as interrogative
Matal
Verb
daw
- to throw, cast
- to sell
References
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- dao
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dau/, [da??]
- (between vowels) IPA(key): /?au/, [?a??]
- Rhymes: -aw
Particle
daw
- Indicates something said by another person or group
Welsh
Alternative forms
- deith (colloquial)
- dêl (literary)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /da?u?/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /dau?/
Verb
daw
- third-person singular present/future of dod
Mutation
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