mawn

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: môn, IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Noun

mawn (plural mawns)

1. (Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper.
   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders‎^[1], Harper & Brothers, page 173:

     An apple-mill and press had been erected on the spot, to which some men were bringing fruit from divers points in mawn-baskets, while others were grinding them, and others wringing down the pomace, whose sweet juice gushed forth into tubs and pails.

2. A ghost.
   • 2006, Watkin Tench, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson‎^[2], University of Adelaide, archived from the original on 10 October 2010, page 7:

     None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, ‘the spirit of the deceased would seize them’.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mau̯n/
• Rhymes: -au̯n

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *mọn, from Proto-Celtic *mānis (compare Irish móin), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“wet”).

Noun

mawn m (collective, singulative mawnen)

1. peat

Derived terms

• mawnbwll (“peat-pit”)
• mawndir (“peaty land”)
• mawnog (“peat-bog”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mawn	fawn	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2

Verb

mawn

1. Nasal mutation of bawn.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bawn	fawn	mawn	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Yola

Noun

mawn

1. Alternative form of mawen

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56