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From Middle Breton men, from Old Breton main, from Proto-Brythonic *maɣɨn, from Proto-Celtic *maginos.[1] Cognate with Cornish men, Welsh maen.

maen m (plural mein)

1. stone

• maen-glas
• maen-hir

1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*magino-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 252

maen f (plural maenen, diminutive maentje n)

1. obsolete spelling of maan

Old French main, mein, man, from Latin manus (“hand”), from Proto-Italic *manus, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”), or perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *mon-u- (see the Proto-Italic entry). Compare French main,Spanish mano.

maen f (plural maens)

1. hand

maen m

1. (eye dialect) definite singular of mann

From Middle Welsh maen, from Proto-Brythonic *maɣɨn, from Proto-Celtic *maginos. Compare Breton maen, Cornish men.

• (North Wales) IPA(key): /maːɨ̯n/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /mai̯n/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /maːn/
• Rhymes: -aːɨ̯n
• Homophone: main (“thin”) (South Wales)

maen m (plural meini)

1. stone
   Synonyms: carreg, craig
2. bakestone griddle
   Synonyms: llechfaen, gradell

• calchfaen

• conglfaen

• gwenithfaen

• gwyrddfaen

• ithfaen

• llechfaen (“flagstone, bakestone”)

• llosgfaen

• maen breuan

• maen coffa

• maen chwŷf

• maen gwerthfawr

• maen hogi

• maen inc

• maen melin

• maen nadd

• maen pobi

• maen prawf

• maen sebon

• maen tân, tanfaen (“marcasite”)

• maen tramgwydd

• maen y Tiboeth

• meingylch (“stone circle”)

• mynd â'r maen i'r wal

• pic ar y maen

• rhewfaen (“cryolite”)

• sylfaen

• tormaen

• tywodfaen

• Y Bont-faen

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /maːɨ̯n/

  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /man/, /mən/

• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /mai̯n/

  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /maːn/, /man/, /mən/

• Rhymes: -aːɨ̯n

• Homophone: main (“thin”) (South Wales)

maen

1. third-person plural present colloquial of bod

Only used in conjunction with the third person plural pronoun nhw. In conjunction with a plural noun, the form mae is used instead.

• (literary) maent

Mutated forms of maen

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

• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “stone”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎[1], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “maen”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “maen”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From ma- +‎ aen.

maen

1. cold