...The Proto-Indo-European root underlying magosh meant "able, strong" and may be found in languages all over the Indo-European world today. In English it is might and German mögen "can, may" The German "Macht" seems to me to be closer to the sense of "able. stron...

I remember as a child (1945, upstate New York) being admonished not to use brat because it also implied illegitimate.