Word Origin Summary

*magadīn is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• maid

  English · derived from

• maighdeann

  Scottish Gaelic · derived from

• maigden

  Middle Irish · derived from

• mayden

  Middle English · inherited from

• maighdean

  Irish · inherited from

• maiden

  English · inherited from

• Maighdeann

  Scottish Gaelic · derived from

• mydhen

  Yola · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root