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# mayst

«mayst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **may** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

may

### part of speech

auxiliary verb

### meaning for a pupil

May; be allowed to; might. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mayst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- Of course thou mayst," said he. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mayst/#x1)
- "Thou mayst as well go home then," said Oh, "but thy son shall live with me yet another year." So the man went away, sad at heart. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mayst/#x2)
- Are there no barns outside where thou mayst put it up?"--"Hold your tongues, ye accursed wretches!" replied the man; "what has it got to do with you? (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mayst/#x3)

### primary record

may

### tests

manual 5; corpora 16 (Torah 0, tales 16, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.8 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mayst» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/mayst/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.