Mawe
Mawe is a short form of an Anglo-Saxon feminine name containing meaw (gull).
Variants:
Maua [Nicholas Hamilton 1876 Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis, page 145].
Mawa [Nicholas Hamilton 1876 Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis, page 145].
Mawe [Maria Boehler 1930 Die altenglischen Frauennamen, page 225].
Note:
Forms ending with -a are Latinizations.
Stem:
meaw = a gull [Joseph Bosworth 1838 A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language, 1st edition, page 232].
Suffix:
“— e the fem. termin.” [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 1].
Explanation:
“Perhaps the fem. equivalent of Mauua” [Olof von Feilitzen 1937 The Pre-conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, page 325].
Usage:
“In Guluesteham dimᵭ . liᵬa fm̃a Maua de . xx. ac̃ . in soc̃ . ⁊ comm̃ᵭ . S̃ . ᴁᴅel.” [Nicholas Hamilton 1876 Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis, page 145]: “In GULUESTEHAM, a half free woman, Mawa (Maua), with 20 acres, in the jurisdiction and under the patronage of St. Etheldreda’s” [Alexander Rumble 1986 Domesday Book 34 (Suffolk): chapter 32, paragraph 26, note].
