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Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Magahi, from Hindi मगधीय (magdhīya).

Symbol

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mag

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Magahi.

See also

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  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Magahi terms

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mæɡ/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

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Noun

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mag (plural mags)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of magazine. NY Mag ― New York Magazine stash of porno mags
  2. (colloquial) Clipping of magnet. Get the mag in there to clear away the scrap.
  3. (colloquial, especially medicine) Clipping of magnesium. She looks fine on physical exam, but I don't like these low mag levels.
  4. (colloquial, automotive) Ellipsis of mag wheel. brand new tires and factory-original mags
  5. (astronomy) Clipping of magnitude.
  6. (colloquial, law) Clipping of magistrate.
  7. (colloquial) Clipping of magnetometer. mag hits Some marine salvagers might be interested in these unusual mag hits.
    • 2010, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2011: Hearings..., page 171:The policy is that all staff entering the Capitol are required to go through the mags whether or not they are with a Member of Congress.
    • 2022 June 28, Luke Broadwater, Michael S. Schmidt, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump Urged Armed Supporters to Capitol, White House Aide Testifies”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:“Take the f-ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.”
Derived terms
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  • bongo mag
  • discmag
  • diskmag
  • fag mag
  • girlie mag
  • girly mag
  • jazz mag
  • K-Mag
  • lad mag
  • ladymag
  • mag book
  • mag dump
  • mag-slip
  • mag slip
  • mag tape
  • porno mag
  • skin mag
  • stroke mag
  • tit mag
  • webmag

Etymology 2

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From Mag, a nickname for Margaret.

Verb

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mag (third-person singular simple present mags, present participle magging, simple past and past participle magged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, thieves' cant) To steal.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, thieves' cant) To talk.
    • 2015, Eric Lambert, The Twenty Thousand Thieves:"Is that why you're always magging with Pascoe?" Horrible John went on. […] "So that's why you and him are always talking. And here's me thinkin' you was crawlin' for stripes."
Derived terms
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  • magsman
  • magpie

Etymology 3

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Noun

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mag (plural mags)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny.
    • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:"Why, of course you wanted to get in," Mr. Bucket asserts with cheerfulness; "but for a old gentleman at your time of life […] not to consider that if he don't keep such a business as the present as close as possible it can't be worth a mag to him, is so curious! You see your temper got the better of you; that's where you lost ground," says Mr. Bucket in an argumentative and friendly way.
    • 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:When all your tin is gone and spent, And you've not a mag for bread or rent

Anagrams

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  • MGA, GMA, Gam., AMG, gma, GAM, AGM, gam

Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /maχ/

Etymology 1

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From Dutch mogen, from Middle Dutch mogen, from Old Dutch mugan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-.

Verb

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mag (present mag, past mog)

  1. may, might
Usage notes
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The preterite form mog is archaic and rarely used.

Etymology 2

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From Dutch macht, from Middle Dutch macht, from Old Dutch *maht, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *mógʰtis.

Noun

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mag (plural magte)

  1. might; power

Albanian

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Alternative forms

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  • mang, makth

Etymology

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Denasalized variant of mang.

Noun

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mag m (plural magë, definite magu, definite plural magët)

  1. rabbit, hinny

Declension

[edit] Declension of mag
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mag magu magë magët
accusative magun
dative magu magut magëve magëve
ablative magësh
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  • makth
  • meksh

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). First attested in 1803.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmak]
  • Audio (Barcelona):(file)

Noun

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mag m (plural mags, feminine maga, feminine plural magues)

  1. magician; wizard
  2. magus (Zoroastrian priest)
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  • màgic
  • Reis Mags

References

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  1. ^ “mag”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Further reading

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  • “mag”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
  • “mag”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
  • “mag” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “mag” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German mak (“ease, calm”), related to Old Saxon makon (“to make”).

Noun

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mag c or n

  1. rest

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑx
  • IPA(key): /mɑx/

Verb

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mag

  1. inflection of mogen:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /maːk/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ma(ː)x/ (northern and central Germany, now chiefly colloquial)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːk, -aːx, -ax
  • Homophone: mach (regional)

Verb

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mag

  1. first/third-person singular present of mögen

Gothic

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Romanization

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mag

  1. romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌲

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *moŋke (“body”).[1][2] Cognates include Komi-Zyrian мыг (myg, “waist of women's clothing”), мыгӧр (mygör, “body, silhouette, torso”) and Eastern Mari могыр (mogyr, “body, figure”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmɒɡ]
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

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mag (plural magok)

  1. seed, pip, stone, pit, core (the central part of fruits)
  2. kernel, core, nucleus (the most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence)
  3. ellipsis of processzormag (“core”, an individual computer processor)
  4. sperm

Declension

[edit] Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative mag magok
accusative magot magokat
dative magnak magoknak
instrumental maggal magokkal
causal-final magért magokért
translative maggá magokká
terminative magig magokig
essive-formal magként magokként
essive-modal — —
inessive magban magokban
superessive magon magokon
adessive magnál magoknál
illative magba magokba
sublative magra magokra
allative maghoz magokhoz
elative magból magokból
delative magról magokról
ablative magtól magoktól
non-attributivepossessive – singular magé magoké
non-attributivepossessive – plural magéi magokéi
Possessive forms of mag
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. magom magjaim
2nd person sing. magod magjaid
3rd person sing. magja magjai
1st person plural magunk magjaink
2nd person plural magotok magjaitok
3rd person plural magjuk magjaik

Variant plural and possessive forms:

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative — magvak
accusative — magvakat
dative — magvaknak
instrumental — magvakkal
causal-final — magvakért
translative — magvakká
terminative — magvakig
essive-formal — magvakként
essive-modal — —
inessive — magvakban
superessive — magvakon
adessive — magvaknál
illative — magvakba
sublative — magvakra
allative — magvakhoz
elative — magvakból
delative — magvakról
ablative — magvaktól
non-attributivepossessive – singular — magvaké
non-attributivepossessive – plural — magvakéi
Possessive forms of mag
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. magvam magvaim
2nd person sing. magvad magvaid
3rd person sing. magva magvai
1st person plural magvunk magvaink
2nd person plural magvatok magvaitok
3rd person plural magvuk magvaik

Derived terms

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  • maga
  • magocska
  • magos
  • magoz
  • magtalan
  • magvas
  • magzat
Compound words with this term at the beginning
  • magfizika
  • magfúzió
  • maghasadás
  • magház
  • maghéj
  • magömlés
  • magtár
  • magvetés
Compound words with this term at the end
  • atommag
  • barackmag
  • cseresznyemag
  • fenyőmag
  • fűmag
  • mustármag
  • napraforgómag
  • processzormag
  • rendszermag
  • sejtmag
  • szezámmag
  • tökmag
  • vetőmag

References

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  1. ^ Entry #563 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ mag in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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  • mag in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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  • maag (nonstandard)

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Dutch maag (“stomach”), from Middle Dutch māge, from Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Pronunciation

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  • (colloquial, nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈmah/ [ˈmah], /ˈmax/ [ˈmax], /ˈmaɣ/ [ˈmaɣ]

Noun

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mag

  1. (colloquial) gastritis
  2. (colloquial, rare) stomach Synonym: lambung

Further reading

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  • “mag”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

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Noun

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mag m

  1. alternative form of mag. Coordinate terms: gen, feb, mar, apr, giu, lug, ago, set, ott, nov, dic

Livonian

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Alternative forms

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  • mag (Salaca)

Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *mako. Related to Finnish maha.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑˀɡ/, [ˈmɑˀɡ̥]

Noun

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ma’g

  1. stomach
  2. belly

Declension

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singular (ikšlu’g) plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv) ma’g magūd
genitive (genitīv) ma’g magūd
partitive (partitīv) ma’ggõ magīdi
dative (datīv) ma’ggõn magūdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl) ma’gkõks magūdõks
illative (illatīv) ma’ggõ ma’gži
inessive (inesīv) ma’gsõ ma’gši
elative (elatīv) ma’gstõ ma’gšti

References

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  • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “ma’g”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *magos (“plain, field”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) (compare Sanskrit मही (mahī́, “earth”) from the same root).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɣ/

Noun

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mag n (genitive maige, nominative plural maige)

  1. a plain, field

Declension

[edit] Neuter s-stem
singular dual plural
nominative magN magN maigeL
vocative magN magN maigeL
accusative magN magN maigeL
genitive maigeL maige maigeN
dative maigL, muigL maigib maigib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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  • ármag
  • i mmach
  • i mmaig

Descendants

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  • Irish: má
  • Scottish Gaelic: magh

Mutation

[edit] Mutation of mag
radical lenition nasalization
magalso mmag in h-prothesis environments magpronounced with /β̃-/ magalso mmag

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 253

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:magWikipedia pl mag sense 1magowie sense 3magowie sense 4

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin magus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmak/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: mag
  • Homophones: mak, Mak

Noun

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mag m pers

  1. (folklore, fantasy) magician, wizard, sorcerer, conjurer, mage, magus (person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic) Synonyms: czarnoksiężnik, czarodziej, czarownik
  2. (figurative) magician, wizard (person who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field) Synonyms: cudotwórca, czarodziej
  3. (historical, Zoroastrianism) magus (priest in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions) Hypernym: kapłan
  4. (biblical, Christianity) Magus (one of the three Biblical Magi who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to him)

Declension

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singular plural
nominative mag magowie/magi (deprecative)
genitive maga magów
dative magowi magom
accusative maga magów
instrumental magiem magami
locative magu magach
vocative magu magowie/magi (deprecative)
[edit] adjectives
  • magiczny
adverbs
  • magicznie
nouns
  • magia
  • magiczka
  • magiczność
  • magik

Further reading

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  • mag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mag in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • mag in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Greek μάγος (mágos) (and perhaps partly through Old Church Slavonic магъ (magŭ)), from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). Also more recently borrowed in part from Latin magus, itself of the same Greek origin.

Noun

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mag m (plural magi)

  1. magus (priest in some ancient eastern cultures, like Iranian/Zoroastrian)
  2. (Christianity) one of the three kings or Magi who visited the baby Jesus
  3. (figuratively) by extension, an envoy, messenger, herald, announcer Synonyms: sol, vestitor
  4. wizard, magician, sorceror Synonyms: vrăjitor, magician
  5. astrologer (or one who predicts the future through the stars), seer Synonym: astrolog
  6. wise man; philosopher Synonyms: învățat, filozof

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative mag magul magi magii
genitive-dative mag magului magi magilor
vocative magule magilor
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  • magic
  • magie
  • amăgi

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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mag (past mhag, future magaidh, verbal noun magadh, past participle magte)

  1. mock, deride

Welsh

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Etymology 1

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Back-formation from magu (“to rear; to breed”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /maːɡ/

Noun

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mag m (uncountable)

  1. fry (young fish) Synonym: silod

Mutation

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radical soft nasal aspirate
mag fag unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /maɡ/

Noun

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mag

  1. nasal mutation of bag

Mutation

[edit] Mutated forms of bag
radical soft nasal aspirate
bag fag mag unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Wolof

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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mag (definite form mag ji)

  1. older sibling Antonym: rakk

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