M.	sir, Mr.
maçon	mason, bricklayer
Madame	Mrs.
Mademoiselle	unmarried woman, Miss
magister	village schoolmaster
mai	May
maire	mayor
mairie	town hall
mais	but
maison	house
[maison communale]	[town hall]
maître	master
maître d’école	schoolteacher
majeur	of legal age, (older)
majorité	legal age, majority
maladie	disease, sickness
maraîcher	market gardener
marchand	merchant
marchant	trader, merchant
marché	market
mardi	Tuesday
maréchal ferrant	blacksmith
mari	husband
mariage	marriage, wedding
marié	groom, husband, married (m.)
mariée	bride, wife, married (f.)
marier (se marier)	to get married
mariés	the married ones
marin	sailor
Marocain(e)	Moroccan
marraine	godmother
mars	March
masculin	male, masculine
matin	early (a.m.), morning
mégisseur	tanner
membre	member
même	the same, even
mendiant	beggar
menuisier	joiner, carpenter
mercredi	Wednesday
mère	mother
mériter	to be worthy
messe	Catholic mass
messidor	See “Months”
métayer	dairy keeper, cowherd, sharecropper
métier	trade, occupation, profession
métis, métisse	mixed blood
meunier	miller
midi	noon
mil	thousand
militaire	military
mille	thousand
millième	thousandth
mineur	under legal age, younger, minor
minorité	under legal age, minority
minuit	midnight
mis(e) en terre	buried
Mlle	Mademoiselle, Miss
Mme	Madame, Mrs.
moi	me
mois	month
Monsieur	sir, Mr.
montagne	hill, mountain
mort(e)	dead, death
mort né	stillborn
moulin	mill
mourant	dying
mourir	to die
moyen(ne)	middle, median, central
mulâtre	mulatto
muni des sacrements de l’Eglise	furnished with the (last) rites of the church