"macian" meaning in Old English

See macian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈmɑ.ki.ɑn/
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *makōn. Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*makōn}} Proto-West Germanic *makōn Head templates: {{ang-verb}} macian Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|macian<w2>}} Forms: weak [table-tags], macian [infinitive], macienne [infinitive], maciġe [first-person, present, singular], macode [first-person, past, singular], macast [present, second-person, singular], macodest [past, second-person, singular], macaþ [present, singular, third-person], macode [past, singular, third-person], maciaþ [plural, present], macodon [past, plural], maciġe [present, singular], macode [past, singular], maciġen [plural, present], macoden [past, plural], maca [imperative, past, present, singular], maciaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], maciende [imperative, present], macod [imperative, past], ġemacod [imperative, past]
  1. to make
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-akNDa9RO
  2. to cause
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-7pg4WaO7
  3. to act
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-BSot66Nx
  4. to bring about
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-BdAfbP5f
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ġemacian, macung Related terms: ġemaca, ġemæc, ġemæċċa, maca

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ġemacian"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "macung"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "maken"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: maken, macke, mak, make, maki, makiȝe, makye, makyn, macen, machiæ, macian, makian, makie, makien, makiȝen, makyȝe (Early Middle English)\nEnglish: make\nGeordie English: myek\nScots: mak\nYola: maake, maak",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: maken, macke, mak, make, maki, makiȝe, makye, makyn, macen, machiæ, macian, makian, makie, makien, makiȝen, makyȝe (Early Middle English)\nEnglish: make\nGeordie English: myek\nScots: mak\nYola: maake, maak"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *makōn",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *makōn.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "2",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macian",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macienne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macast",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macodest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macodon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciġen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macoden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maca",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġemacod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "macian",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "macian<w2>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ġemaca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ġemæc"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ġemæċċa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "maca"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to make"
      ],
      "id": "en-macian-ang-verb-akNDa9RO",
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...it causeth rapine, and unrighteous judgements, thefts, and leasings, and perjuries. It is like unto hell, because they both have insatiable greediness, so that they can never be full.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Memory of the Saints\"\nHeo macað reaflac and unrihte domas stala and leasunga and forsworennyssa. Heo is helle ġelic forðan þe hi habbað butu unafylledlice grædignysse þæt hi fulle ne beoð næfre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to cause"
      ],
      "id": "en-macian-ang-verb-7pg4WaO7",
      "links": [
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "..and related in order to the bishop Marinus and to the chiefest men how they had acted in the time of Decius the emperor...'",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Seven Sleepers\"\n...and þam bisceope marine and þām yldestan mannum be endebyrdnysse rehton hu hi hit macedon on decius caseres tīman...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "...but I cannot at all understand how it has thus happened to me that I act thus.'",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Seven Sleepers\"\n...ac ic þurh nan þincg ongytan ne mæg hu me sy þus gelumpen þæt ic hit þus macige.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to act"
      ],
      "id": "en-macian-ang-verb-BSot66Nx",
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The fourth sin is Ira, that is in English, Anger; it causeth that a man have no power over his mind, and bringeth about manslaughters and many evils.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Memory of the Saints\"\nSe feorða leahtor is ira þæt is on englisc weamodnyss. Seo deð þæt se man nah his modes ġeweald and macað manslihtas and mycele yfelu.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to bring about"
      ],
      "id": "en-macian-ang-verb-BdAfbP5f",
      "links": [
        [
          "bring about",
          "bring about"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɑ.ki.ɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "macian"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Old English class 2 weak verbs",
    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English verbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "ġemacian"
    },
    {
      "word": "macung"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "maken"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: maken, macke, mak, make, maki, makiȝe, makye, makyn, macen, machiæ, macian, makian, makie, makien, makiȝen, makyȝe (Early Middle English)\nEnglish: make\nGeordie English: myek\nScots: mak\nYola: maake, maak",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: maken, macke, mak, make, maki, makiȝe, makye, makyn, macen, machiæ, macian, makian, makie, makien, makiȝen, makyȝe (Early Middle English)\nEnglish: make\nGeordie English: myek\nScots: mak\nYola: maake, maak"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*makōn"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *makōn",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *makōn.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "2",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macian",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macienne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macast",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macodest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macodon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciġen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macoden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maca",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "maciende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġemacod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "macian",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "macian<w2>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ġemaca"
    },
    {
      "word": "ġemæc"
    },
    {
      "word": "ġemæċċa"
    },
    {
      "word": "maca"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to make"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...it causeth rapine, and unrighteous judgements, thefts, and leasings, and perjuries. It is like unto hell, because they both have insatiable greediness, so that they can never be full.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Memory of the Saints\"\nHeo macað reaflac and unrihte domas stala and leasunga and forsworennyssa. Heo is helle ġelic forðan þe hi habbað butu unafylledlice grædignysse þæt hi fulle ne beoð næfre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to cause"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "..and related in order to the bishop Marinus and to the chiefest men how they had acted in the time of Decius the emperor...'",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Seven Sleepers\"\n...and þam bisceope marine and þām yldestan mannum be endebyrdnysse rehton hu hi hit macedon on decius caseres tīman...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "...but I cannot at all understand how it has thus happened to me that I act thus.'",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Seven Sleepers\"\n...ac ic þurh nan þincg ongytan ne mæg hu me sy þus gelumpen þæt ic hit þus macige.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to act"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The fourth sin is Ira, that is in English, Anger; it causeth that a man have no power over his mind, and bringeth about manslaughters and many evils.",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Memory of the Saints\"\nSe feorða leahtor is ira þæt is on englisc weamodnyss. Seo deð þæt se man nah his modes ġeweald and macað manslihtas and mycele yfelu.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to bring about"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bring about",
          "bring about"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɑ.ki.ɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "macian"
}

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