"macian" meaning in Old English

See macian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈmɑ.ki.ɑn/
Etymology: Usually held to be inherited from Proto-West Germanic *makōn, although borrowing from Old Saxon makōn has been suggested. Compare also Old Dutch macon, Old Frisian makia, and Old High German mahhōn. Etymology templates: {{yesno|1|i|I}} i, {{glossary|inherited}} inherited, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*makōn|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Proto-West Germanic *makōn, {{inh+|ang|gmw-pro|*makōn|nocap=1}} inherited from Proto-West Germanic *makōn, {{glossary|loanword|borrowing}} borrowing, {{cog|osx|makōn}} Old Saxon makōn, {{cog|odt|macon}} Old Dutch macon, {{cog|ofs|makia}} Old Frisian makia, {{cog|goh|mahhōn}} Old High German mahhōn Head templates: {{ang-verb}} macian, {{tlb|ang|uncommon|_|before|_|Late Old English}} (uncommon before Late Old English) 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 or create:
    to perform or carry out (a miracle)
    Tags: uncommon
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-55fa2q13
  2. to make or create:
    (grammar) to form (a word by inflection)
    Tags: uncommon
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-9j4SWE9J Categories (other): Grammar, Late Old English, Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Late Old English: 18 12 33 4 7 4 4 4 13 Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 19 11 34 4 8 3 4 4 12 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  3. to make or create:
    (rare) to prepare (especially food or a feast)
    Tags: rare, uncommon
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-5aBe~faF
  4. to cause or bring about Tags: uncommon
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-~UN5GEwT
  5. to act or behave Tags: uncommon
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-SqmA9Pm2
  6. (rare) to confer or grant Tags: rare, uncommon
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-L94gpSUS
  7. (rare) to treat; to behave towards Tags: rare, uncommon
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-Ex~hrWZX
  8. (rare) to fare or perform Tags: rare, uncommon
    Sense id: en-macian-ang-verb-OBqczLdv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ġemacian, macung Related terms: ġemaca, ġemæc, ġemæċċa, maca

Inflected forms

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    },
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          "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.",
          "translation": "...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.",
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          "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.",
          "translation": "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.",
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          "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...",
          "translation": "..and related in order to the bishop Marinus and to the chiefest men how they had acted in the time of Decius the emperor...'",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "macod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġemacod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "macian",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "uncommon",
        "3": "_",
        "4": "before",
        "5": "_",
        "6": "Late Old English"
      },
      "expansion": "(uncommon before Late Old English)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "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 or create:",
        "to perform or carry out (a miracle)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "create",
          "create"
        ],
        [
          "perform",
          "perform"
        ],
        [
          "carry out",
          "carry out"
        ],
        [
          "miracle",
          "miracle#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "before Late Old English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "ang:Grammar"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make or create:",
        "to form (a word by inflection)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "create",
          "create"
        ],
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form"
        ],
        [
          "inflection",
          "inflection#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "to make or create:",
        "(grammar) to form (a word by inflection)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "before Late Old English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make or create:",
        "to prepare (especially food or a feast)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "create",
          "create"
        ],
        [
          "prepare",
          "prepare"
        ],
        [
          "food",
          "food#English"
        ],
        [
          "feast",
          "feast#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "to make or create:",
        "(rare) to prepare (especially food or a feast)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "before Late Old English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "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.",
          "translation": "...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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "translation": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to cause or bring about"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "bring about",
          "bring about"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "before Late Old English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "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...",
          "translation": "..and related in order to the bishop Marinus and to the chiefest men how they had acted in the time of Decius the emperor...'",
          "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.",
          "translation": "...but I cannot at all understand how it has thus happened to me that I act thus.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to act or behave"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "behave",
          "behave"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "before Late Old English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to confer or grant"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "confer",
          "confer"
        ],
        [
          "grant",
          "grant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) to confer or grant"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "before Late Old English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to treat; to behave towards"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "treat",
          "treat"
        ],
        [
          "behave",
          "behave"
        ],
        [
          "toward",
          "toward"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) to treat; to behave towards"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "before Late Old English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to fare or perform"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fare",
          "fare"
        ],
        [
          "perform",
          "perform"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) to fare or perform"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "before Late Old English"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɑ.ki.ɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "macian"
}

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