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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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main1 physical strength (surviving only in
with might and m.). OE.
mæġen = OS.
megin, OHG.
magan,
megin, ON.
magn,
meg(i)n, f. Gmc. base *
maġ- have power; see
MAY1.
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