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Mag  maag,  maga,  mawe,  maw,  mage,  mave, ‘stomach’;  *maga ( *magins) is wanting. From is derived   magone, ‘crop (of birds),’ or rather magun, also magon, ‘vexation,’ to which Rhæto- magún, ‘stomach,’ is allied.’ For the early history of the word we have no definite clue; to derive  from, root mag, ‘to be able, have strength’ (as if the stomach were the ‘nourishing, strength giving part’), is not to be commended. The names of parts of the body need not, however, be traced back to a verbal root;, , and.  ,, ‘lean, lank, meagre,’ from the  mager,  magar, ; corresponding to  and  mager,  mœger,  magr, , ‘lean’; a common  word, wanting only in. Considering the wide and early diffusion of the term, its similarity to macer ( magro,  maigre) is remarkable. While mę̂gre,  meagre, are certainly of  origin (  maigre), , like  macer, ‘lean,’ and  μακεδνός, ‘tall,’ μᾶκρός, ‘long,’ may be derived from an Aryan root mā̆k, ‘long, thin’;  máżus, ‘little,’ may, like  magar, point to a common root, magh. Yet the supposition that the cognates are derived from Low  and  magro is more probable; note, from  curtus.  ,, ‘mowing, swath,’ from mât ( mâdes),  (also ), ‘mowing, what has been mown, hay, meadow,’  mâd, ; hence  mâdâri,  mâdœre, mœder,  , ‘mower’;  mœ̂þ, , ‘mowing, what has been mown, hay,’  math in aftermath and lattermath. , and math,  *mêþ ( *mêþis), are properly verbal abstracts of the root mê, ‘to mow,’ just as the cognate  ἄμητος, ‘harvest,’ is derived from ἁμάω, ‘I mow’;  also ἀμητός, ‘crop, the field when reaped.’ See, , and. —   ,, ‘to mow,’ from the  mœjen,  mâen; corresponding to  maaijen,  mâwan ( meów),  to mow. A common West root mê, ‘to mow,’ has already been deduced from the previous word; it appears in  with a vowel prefixed in ἄ-μη-τος, ‘harvest,’ and ἀ-μάω, ‘to mow’; the t in the  root mêt, ‘to mow, harvest,’ which  belonged  to the  stem only, may have been regarded as a part of the root; to this is allied  meithel, ‘a party of reapers.’    (1.),, obsolete except in compounds; , , ‘dowry,’ from mahelschaz, , ‘dowry,’ and  ‘engagement ring’; , ‘place of public assembly or of execution,’  mahelstat, , ‘court of justice, place of execution,’  mahalstat, , ‘court of justice.’ See.

 (2.),, ‘meal, repast,’ from mâl, , ‘banquet, meal-time’;  *mâl, , not recorded in this sense; allied to  mœ̂l,  meal (wanting in ). Probably identical in with the cognates discussed under  (2), so that ‘mealtime,’ as ‘time’ par excellence, may have led to the meanings ‘banquet, repast.’  mál,, also signifies, among other things, ‘meal-time.’  ',, ‘to grind,’ from the  maln,  malan; in the latter form the common  word for ‘to grind’ (but wanting in  even in );   malan,  malen,  mala,  malan, ‘to grind.’ The root mal (mol, ml), ‘to grind,’ is common to the West Aryan languages, and this fact indicates the very early existence of grinding;   molo,  μύλλω (to which μύλη, μύλος, μυλῖται are allied),  melją mlĕti),  máḷù (málti),  melim, ‘I grind.’ This community of terms in the West Aryan languages does not necessarily point to a  period when the tribes speaking the languages mentioned formed one body. It is more probable that the use of mills was learnt by one tribe from another. The influence of a foreign civilisation  is also quite conceivable.  , , , , , and .  ', , see .   ,, ‘mane,’ earlier also  (the mutation, which also occurs in  and , seems to be due to the ), from the   mane, man,  and ,  mana, ;   maan,  manu,  mane,  mǫn, , ‘mane’ (to this is allied the derivative  makke,  and  manke, ‘upper part of the neck of a horse’). The common manô,, ‘mane’ ( *mana, , is by chance not recorded), shows a later development of meaning, for the earlier sense of the word was certainly 