mayest

«mayest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: may — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

may

part of speech

auxiliary verb

meaning for a pupil

May; be allowed to; might. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in ordinary speech; today we say "may" or "might" with "you". "Mayest" is the old form used with "thou".

examples

• And she said: 'What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?' (Torah GEN.38.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• “And that thou mayest be cast out of another pack. (The Jungle Book) tree →
• And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; (Torah GEN.2.16, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

may

tests

manual 5; corpora 66 (Torah 50, tales 16, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 7.5 (Torah alone 116.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;
• And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a congregation of peoples;
• And she said: 'What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?'
• Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.
• Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover-offering within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mayest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.