Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/magô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mak- (“small bag, bellows, belly”) (alternatively reconstructed as *maks-), which appears to be a European substrate term borrowed into multiple Indo-European branches. Compare Lithuanian mãkas (“purse, wallet, scrotum”), Proto-Slavic *mošьnà (“small bag, purse”), Proto-Celtic *makīnā (“bellows”) (whence Welsh megin (“bellows”), Breton megin (“bellows”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.ɣɔːː/

Noun

*magô m

1. stomach

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *magô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*magô	*maganiz
vocative	*magô	*maganiz
accusative	*maganų	*maganunz
genitive	*maginiz	*maganǫ̂
dative	*magini	*magammaz
instrumental	*maginē	*magammiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *magō
  • Old English: maga
    • Middle English: maȝe, maghe, mawe
      • English: maw
      • Scots: mawe, maw
  • Old Frisian: maga
    • Saterland Frisian: Moage
    • West Frisian: mage
  • Old Saxon: mago
    • Middle Low German: māge
      • Low German:
        • German Low German: Mage, Maag
        • Westphalian:

          Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Māge

          Sauerländisch: Māge

          Westmünsterländian: Maagen, Maage

      • Plautdietsch: Moag
  • Old Dutch: *mago
    • Middle Dutch: māge
      • Dutch: maag
        • Afrikaans: maag
        • Negerhollands: maag
        • → Indonesian: mag
      • Limburgish: maag
  • Old High German: mago
    • Middle High German: mage
      • Bavarian: Mågn
      • German: Magen
      • Hunsrik: Maaghe, Maan
      • Luxembourgish: Mo
      • Vilamovian: maoga
      • Yiddish: מאָגן (mogn)
    • → Italian: magone
    • → Venetan: magon
• Old Norse: magi
  • Icelandic: magi
  • Faroese: magi
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mage; (dialectal) magi, maga, mågå
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: mage
  • Jamtish: maga
  • Elfdalian: magi
  • Old Swedish: maghi
    • Swedish: mage
  • Old Danish: maghæ
    • Danish: mave
      • Norwegian Bokmål: mave
  • Gutnish: mage
  • Scanian: mawe
• East Germanic:
  • → Galician: maga
• → Proto-Finnic: *mako
  • Estonian: magu
  • Finnish: mako (dialectal)
  • Ingrian: mako
  • Livonian: ma'g, mag
  • Võro: mago
  • Votic: mako
• → Proto-Finnic: *maha
  • Finnish: maha
    • → Votic: maha
  • Karelian:
    • North Karelian: maha
    • South Karelian: maha
  • Livvi: maha
  • Ludian: maha
  • ⇒ Veps: mahud