< Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/magan
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *maganą.
Verb
*magan
- to be able, may
Inflection
*mag, *maht, *magun, *mahtā
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
In all descendants but Old English, the infinitive/plural stem vowel was replaced with u.
- Old English: magan
- Middle English: mowen, magen, mayen, moȝen, maȝen, mauen, mawen, mouen, mugen, muȝhen, mouin, mouwen, mowe, mawe, mow, mouwe
- English: may
- Scots: mey, may, ma
- Middle English: mowen, magen, mayen, moȝen, maȝen, mauen, mawen, mouen, mugen, muȝhen, mouin, mouwen, mowe, mawe, mow, mouwe
- Old Frisian: muga
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: mei
- Mooring: mooge
- Saterland Frisian: muuge
- West Frisian: meie
- North Frisian:
- Old Saxon: mugan
- Middle Low German: mogen, mögen
- Low German: mögen, mägen
- German Low German: mögen
- Low German: mögen, mägen
- Middle Low German: mogen, mögen
- Old Dutch: mugan
- Middle Dutch: mōgen
- Dutch: mogen
- Afrikaans: mag
- Limburgish: moge
- Dutch: mogen
- Middle Dutch: mōgen
- Old High German: mugan
- Middle High German: mugen, mogen, magen, megen, mügen, mögen
- Alemannic German: möge
- Central Franconian: mugge
- Cimbrian: mögan, möng
- German: mögen
- → Central Franconian: müjje
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: meege
- Yiddish: מעגן (megn)
- Middle High German: mugen, mogen, magen, megen, mügen, mögen