a field or plain, corrupt. into Maw or Moy, Latinised _magus_; _e.g._ Magh-breagh (the beautiful plain), in Ireland, extending from the R. Liffey to the borders of Co. Louth; Moy and May (the plain), both in Ireland and in Scotland; Moidart (the high plain), in Inverness-shire; Mayo (the plain of yew-trees); Moynalty, Irish _Magh-nealta_ (the plain of the flocks); Macosquin, in Londonderry, corrupt. from _Magh-Cosgrain_ (the field of Cosgrain); Mallow, in Cork, _Magh-Ealla_ (the plain of the R. Allo or Ealla, now the Blackwater); Moville and Movilla (the plain of the old tree, _bile_); Moycoba, for _Magh-Coba_ (the plain of Coba); _Machaire_, a derivative from _Magh_, is found under the forms of Maghera and Maghery, thus--Magheracloone (the plain of the meadow); Magheraculmony (the plain at the back of the shrubbery); Maynooth (the plain of Nuadhat); Moira, corrupt. from _Magh-rath_ (the plain of the forts), Co. Down; Moyarta (the plain of the grave, _ferta_). In Scotland we find Rothiemay, in Banff, corrupt. from _Rath-na-magh_ (the castle of the plain); Monievaird, _i.e._ _Magh-na-bhaird_ (the plain of the bards), in Perthshire; Machynlleth (the ridge on the slope), a town in Montgomeryshire, Wales. In its Latinised form this word is found in _Marcomagus_, now Margagen (the plain of the Marcomanni); Juliomagus and Cæsaromagus (of Julius and Cæsar); Noviomagus (the new plain); and again the same word became _magen_ or _megen_ among the Teutonic races, thus Noviomagus became Nimeguen; Nozon was anc. _Noviomagus_ or _Noviodunum_; Riom, in France, anc. _Ricomagus_ (rich plain); Maing or Meung, on the Loire, formerly _Magus_; Argenton, Argentomagus (silver field); Rouen, anc. _Rothomagus_ (the fort on the plain). The ancient name of Worms was _Bartomagus_, which Buttman says means high field; its present name was corrupted from _Vormatia_; Mouzon, in France, was Mosomagus (the plain of the R. Meuse). [Sidenote: MAHA (Sansc.),] great; _e.g._ Mahabalipoor (the city of the great god Bali); Mahanuddy (the great river); Mahadea Mountains (the mountains of the great goddess); Maha-vila-ganga (the great sandy river); Mantote, in Ceylon, corrupt. from _Maha-Totta_ (the great ferry). [Sidenote: MAHAL, MAL, or MOLD (Teut.),] the place of meeting; _e.g._ Mahlburg or Mailburg, in Lower Austria (the town of the place of meeting); Detmold, anc. _Theotmalli_ (the people’s meeting-place); Wittmold (the meeting-place in the wood); Moldfelde (in the field); Malton (the town of the meeting), in Yorkshire; Maulden (the valley of the meeting), in Bedfordshire; Kirch-ditmold (the church at the meeting-place). [Sidenote: MALY, or MALKI (Sclav.),] little; _e.g._ Malinek, Malinkowo, Malenz, Malchow, Malkow, Malkowitz (little town); Maliverck (the little height). [Sidenote: MAN, or MAEN (Cym.-Cel.),]