maewia

suffix. of gulls

pl. n. & poss. suff. Zoo. of gulls. glim maewion, ** maewia '(the) voices of gulls'. >> -a, maewion

maew

noun. gull

A noun for “gull” first appearing as N. maew in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√MIW “whine” (Ety/MIW). It appeared in later notes as an archaic genitive plural maewion in the phrase S. †glim maewion “(the) voices of gulls” (PE17/97). Its class plural mewrim seems to have appeared in S. Ras Mewrim “✱Cape of the Gulls”, an alternate name for S. Bar-in-Mŷl “Home of the Gulls” (WJ/190). If so, the vowel e would be the result of the sound change whereby *ae* sometimes became *e* in polysyllables.

maewion

suffix. of gulls

pl. n. & poss. suff. Zoo. of gulls. glim maewion, ** maewia '(the) voices of gulls'. >> -a, maewia