See maw in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "kw",
"2": "cel-bry-pro",
"3": "*maw"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Brythonic *maw",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "kw",
"2": "cel-pro",
"3": "*magus",
"4": "",
"5": "servant, boy"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Celtic *magus (“servant, boy”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "br",
"2": "mav"
},
"expansion": "Breton mav",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ga",
"2": "mogh",
"3": "",
"4": "slave"
},
"expansion": "Irish mogh (“slave”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "meudwy",
"3": "",
"4": "hermit"
},
"expansion": "Welsh meudwy (“hermit”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Brythonic *maw, from Proto-Celtic *magus (“servant, boy”). Cognate with Breton mav, Irish mogh (“slave”), and Welsh meudwy (“hermit”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mebyon",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "maw",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"unmutated"
]
},
{
"form": "vaw",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"soft"
]
},
{
"form": "faw",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"mixed"
]
},
{
"form": "vaw",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"after-th",
"mutation-mixed"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "kw",
"10": "",
"11": "",
"12": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "{{{dual}}}",
"5": "",
"6": "{{{dual2}}}",
"7": "plural",
"8": "mebyon",
"9": "",
"g": "m",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "maw m (plural mebyon)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "mebyon"
},
"expansion": "maw m (plural mebyon)",
"name": "kw-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Cornish",
"lang_code": "kw",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Cornish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 8 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "kw",
"name": "People",
"orig": "kw:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "street urchin",
"word": "maw stret"
},
{
"english": "girl",
"word": "mowes"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
38,
41
]
],
"english": "I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.",
"text": "My a wrug dyski Kernowek termyn my vy maw.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"boy, lad"
],
"id": "en-maw-kw-noun-5GNh4AeY",
"links": [
[
"boy",
"boy"
],
[
"lad",
"lad"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mab"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mæʊ/"
}
],
"word": "maw"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"english": "street urchin",
"word": "maw stret"
},
{
"english": "girl",
"word": "mowes"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "kw",
"2": "cel-bry-pro",
"3": "*maw"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Brythonic *maw",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "kw",
"2": "cel-pro",
"3": "*magus",
"4": "",
"5": "servant, boy"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Celtic *magus (“servant, boy”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "br",
"2": "mav"
},
"expansion": "Breton mav",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ga",
"2": "mogh",
"3": "",
"4": "slave"
},
"expansion": "Irish mogh (“slave”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "meudwy",
"3": "",
"4": "hermit"
},
"expansion": "Welsh meudwy (“hermit”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Brythonic *maw, from Proto-Celtic *magus (“servant, boy”). Cognate with Breton mav, Irish mogh (“slave”), and Welsh meudwy (“hermit”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mebyon",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "maw",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"unmutated"
]
},
{
"form": "vaw",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"soft"
]
},
{
"form": "faw",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"mixed"
]
},
{
"form": "vaw",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"after-th",
"mutation-mixed"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "kw",
"10": "",
"11": "",
"12": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "{{{dual}}}",
"5": "",
"6": "{{{dual2}}}",
"7": "plural",
"8": "mebyon",
"9": "",
"g": "m",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "maw m (plural mebyon)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "mebyon"
},
"expansion": "maw m (plural mebyon)",
"name": "kw-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Cornish",
"lang_code": "kw",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Cornish entries with incorrect language header",
"Cornish lemmas",
"Cornish masculine nouns",
"Cornish nouns",
"Cornish terms derived from Proto-Brythonic",
"Cornish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
"Cornish terms inherited from Proto-Brythonic",
"Cornish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
"Cornish terms with usage examples",
"Pages with 8 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"kw:People"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
38,
41
]
],
"english": "I learnt Cornish when I was a boy.",
"text": "My a wrug dyski Kernowek termyn my vy maw.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"boy, lad"
],
"links": [
[
"boy",
"boy"
],
[
"lad",
"lad"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mab"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mæʊ/"
}
],
"word": "maw"
}
Download raw JSONL data for maw meaning in Cornish (2.4kB)
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: maw/Cornish 'aspirate' base_tags={'unmutated', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"maw"
],
"section": "Cornish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "maw",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: maw/Cornish 'hard' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'unmutated', 'soft'}",
"path": [
"maw"
],
"section": "Cornish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "maw",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Cornish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.