magu

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡu/

magu m (plural maghi)

1. mage, magician

• magia

• “magu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• Rhymes: -ɑɡu

From Proto-Finnic *mako, ultimately loaned from Proto-Germanic *magô. Cognate to Votic mako.

magu (genitive mao, partitive magu)

1. (anatomy) stomach
2. (colloquial, pejorative for humans) belly

From Proto-Finnic *maku.

magu (genitive mao, partitive magu)

1. (archaic) taste, flavour

• magus

magu

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌿

magu

1. Rōmaji transcription of マグ

From Proto-Finnic *maku.

magu

1. taste

• mago

From Proto-West Germanic *magu, from Proto-Germanic *maguz (“boy”), from Proto-Indo-European *mogʰus (“fellow, bachelor, unmarried”).

Cognate with Old Saxon magu (“boy”), Old Norse mǫgr (“son, boy”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃 (magus, “child, boy”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.ɡu/, [ˈmɑ.ɣu]

magu m (poetic)

1. boy, son
2. servant, retainer
3. man, hero, warrior
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Hwǣr cōm mearg? Hwǣr cōm mago? · Hwǣr cōm māþþumġyfa?
     Hwǣr cōm symbla ġesetu? · Hwǣr sindon seledrēamas?
     Ēalā beorht bune! · Ēalā byrnwiga!
     Ēalā þēodnes þrym! · Hū sēo þrāg ġewāt,
     ġenāp under nihthelm, · swā hēo nō wære.

     Whither did the horse come? Whither did the man come? Whither did the treasure-giver come?
     Whither did the seats of feasts come? Where are the hall-joys?
     Alack and alas, bright cup! Alack and alas, mailed warrior!
     Alack and alas, the army of the king! How did the time pass,
     grow dark under the cover of night, as if it never did.

Strong u-stem:

• maguþeġn

magu

1. Romanization of ᛗᚨᚷᚢ

From Proto-Finnic *maku.

magu

1. taste, flavour

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “вкус”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Middle Welsh magu (“to rear, produce”), from Proto-Brythonic *mėgɨd, from Proto-Celtic *maketi (“to raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, to raise”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡɨ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːɡi/

magu (first-person singular present magaf)

1. (transitive) to rear, to raise, to bring up
2. (transitive or intransitive) to breed
3. (transitive) to nurse

• Alternative third-person singular subjunctive (literary): maco

• mag (“fry”)
• magwr (“rearer, fosterer”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doformaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language