magan

Noun

 * 1) interdiction, prohibition

Etymology
From, from. See there for cognates.

Verb

 * 1)  can, to be able
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
 * "ang"

- Þā ġecwæð sē abbod and ealle þā ġebrōðra þæt þēr ne mihte nā mā munuca wunian...


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Swithhun, Bishop"
 * "ang"

- ...he næfre ær naht cweðan ne mihte...


 * 1) * Early 11th century, Wulfstan, "Secundum Lucam"
 * "ang"

- Uton helpan ūre selfra þā hwīle þe wē magon, þȳ lǣs wē forweorðen þonne wē lǣst wēnen.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Of the Catholic Faith"
 * "ang"

- Būtan ġē hit ġelīefen, ne magon ġē hit understandan.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 45:3
 * "ang"

- And hē cwæþ tō his ġebrōðrum, "Iċ eom Iosep! Leofaþ ūre fæder nū ġīet?" Þā ne meahton his ġebrōðru him for eġe ġeandwyrdan.


 * 1) * c. 990, , Matthew 26:8-9
 * "ang"

- Þēos sealf meahte bēon ġeseald tō miċelum weorðe and þearfum ġedǣledu.


 * 1) * c. 990, , Mark 14:37
 * "ang"

- Þā cōm hē and fand hīe slāpende, and cwæþ tō Petre, "Simon, slǣpst þū? Ne meahtest þū āne tīde wacian?"


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "Palm Sunday: On the Lord's Passion"
 * "ang"

- Swā fela þūsenda engla meahton ēaðe bewerian Crist wiþ þām unmannum, mid heofonlīcum wǣpnum, ġif hē þrōwian nolde selfwilles for ūs.


 * 1)  can (do something), to be able (to do something)
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "The First Sunday After Easter"
 * "ang"

- God is ælmihtiġ, and mæġ eall þæt hē wile.


 * , no. 22
 * "ang"

- Earg mæġ þæt ān: þæt hē him ondrǣde.


 * 1) avail, prevail
 * ,
 * "ang"

- Þū meaht wiþ þām lāþan / þe ġeond land færeþ.


 * 1)  To get along; to be in any state, or pass through any experience (often with a qualifier denoting the nature of one's state)

Usage notes

 * Late West Saxon uses miht(-) for meaht(-). By contrast, our most reliable witness of Early West Saxon spelling, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's , consistently has meaht(-), occasionally meht(-).