Where does “maymen” come from?

maymen (Middle English) comes from Old French mahaigner — to mutilate.

maymen (Middle English): To maim; to physically injure as to impair

Definitions

  1. To maim; to physically injure as to impair

Ancestry of “maymen”, step by step

maymen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French mahaigner

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmahaignerto mutilate

via Anglo-Norman maheimer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanmaheimer—

Words derived from “maymen”

Every word from Old French mahaigner →