maymen

• mahaymen, maheyme, mayme, mayn, mayne, maynyn
• maynhe (Northern)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman mahaimer, alteration of Old French mahaignier, mehaignier after Frankish *hammjan (“to restrict”); thus equivalent to maym (“injury”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). Forms with /n/, /ɳ/ continue the unaltered Old French form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæi̯mən/, /ˈmæi̯nən/, (possibly) /maˈæi̯mən/, /mæi̯ˈæi̯mən/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈmæi̯ɳə/, /ˈmaɳə/, /ˈmɛɳə/

maymen (third-person singular simple present maymeth, present participle maymende, maymynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle maymed)

1. To maim; to physically injure as to impair.
2. (figuratively) To ruin or destroy.

• English: maim
• Middle Scots: mainȝie, menȝe
  • Scots: meingyie (obsolete)

• “maimen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.