Word Origin | Mayıs

The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar. 

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Mayıs: mayıs [ Aşık Paşa, Garib-name, 1330] nitekim şol görklü mayıs yağmuru/ kim içinde gizlidür taŋrı nuru

from GR Máios [1] μάιος name of a month from Latin Maius  Ozbek Maia Büyük Hanım TR; old lady EN, Mayıs başında bayramı kutlanan Roma tanrıçası TR; festival of Roman Godess  from Latin *mag-ia
→ maksi+ FR/EN maxi, Latin maximus Latin magnus IndoEuropean *mag-no- IndoEuropean *meg- from same root: Latin magnus (big), maius/maior (bigger), maximus (biggest), magister (important title). oldGR megás/megálos, Sans maha, Persian mēh, Kurdish mezin, Armenian medz[2] մեձ (big, great).

[1] May:  fifth month, early 12c., from Old French mai and directly from Latin Majus, Maius mensis "month of May," possibly from Maja, Maia, a Roman earth goddess (wife of Vulcan) whose name is of unknown origin; possibly from PIE *mag-ya "she who is great," fem. suffixed form of root *meg- "great" (cognate with Latin magnus). Replaced Old English þrimilce, month in which cows can be milked three times a day. May marriages have been considered unlucky at least since Ovid's day. May-apple attested from 1733, American English.
A female given name, pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning. 

 [2] Medz Yeghern: From the Western Armenian pronunciation of Armenian Մեծ Եղեռն (Mec Ełeṙn, literally “Great Crime”). Synonymous with Հայոց ցեղասպանություն (Hayocʿ cʿełaspanutʿyun, “Genocide of Armenians”) to refer to the Armenian Genocide the way Shoah is used by Jews to refer to the Holocaust.