mell
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mɛl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English mǣlan (“to speak, talk”), from mǣl (“speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle”) and māl (“suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay”), both from Proto-Germanic *mahlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), alteration of *maþlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to meet, encounter”). Cognate with Scots mele (“to speak, converse, tell”), Danish mæle (“to speak, utter”), Icelandic mæla (“to speak, say”), Old High German mahalōn (“to charge, accuse, proscecute”), German vermählen (“to wed, marry”). More at blackmail.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)
Noun
[edit]mell
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English mellen, medlen, from Old French meller, mesler (“to mix, mingle”). Doublet of meddle.
Verb
[edit]mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)
- (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
- c. 1495, John Skelton, Vppon a deedman's hed:
- For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iulye. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 29, recto:
- Here is a great deale of good matter, / loſt for lacke of telling, / Now ſicker I see, thou doeſt but clatter: / harme may come of melling.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 57:
- “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there.”
Etymology 3
[edit]From Middle English mel, mell, melle, from Latin mell-, mel.[1][2] Doublet of mel.
Noun
[edit]mell (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Honey.
- 1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XX.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 86:
- Her ſmyles were ſober, and her lookes were chearfull vnto all: / And ſuch as neither wanton ſeeme, noꝛ waward, mell, noꝛ gall.
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]mell (uncountable)
- The last grain cut at harvest; kern
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “mell, n.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “mel, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Breton
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *melsā (“knuckle”); possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel (“limb”).
Noun
[edit]mell
References
[edit]- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Hungarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- melly (dialectal or archaic)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mälke. Cognates include Southern Mansi [script needed] (møul), Eastern Mansi мавлын (mawlyn) and Northern Mansi ма̄гыл (māgyl, “breast”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mell (plural mellek)
- (anatomy) breast
- (anatomy, in certain compounds and phrases) chest
- Synonym: mellkas
- (anatomy, attributive usage) thoracic
- mellüreg ― thoracic cavity
- (swimming) Ellipsis of mellúszás (“breaststroke”)..
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | mell | mellek |
accusative | mellet | melleket |
dative | mellnek | melleknek |
instrumental | mellel | mellekkel |
causal-final | mellért | mellekért |
translative | mellé | mellekké |
terminative | mellig | mellekig |
essive-formal | mellként | mellekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | mellben | mellekben |
superessive | mellen | melleken |
adessive | mellnél | melleknél |
illative | mellbe | mellekbe |
sublative | mellre | mellekre |
allative | mellhez | mellekhez |
elative | mellből | mellekből |
delative | mellről | mellekről |
ablative | melltől | mellektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
mellé | melleké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
melléi | mellekéi |
Possessive forms of mell | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | mellem | melleim |
2nd person sing. | melled | melleid |
3rd person sing. | melle | mellei |
1st person plural | mellünk | melleink |
2nd person plural | melletek | melleitek |
3rd person plural | mellük | melleik |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- mell in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Maltese
[edit]Root |
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m-l-l |
3 terms |
Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]mell (imperfect jmell, verbal noun mella)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of mell | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | mellejt | mellejt | mell | mellejna | mellejtu | mellew | |
f | mellet | |||||||
imperfect | m | mmell | tmell | jmell | mmellu | tmellu | jmellu | |
f | tmell | |||||||
imperative | mell | mellu |
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]mell m
Tarifit
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic مل (mall).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mell (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⴻⵍⵍ)
- (transitive) to detest, to be repulsed, to dislike
- (transitive) to be fed up
Conjugation
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
[edit]- Verbal noun: amelli (“weariness”)
Yola
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English mellen.
Verb
[edit]mell
- to meddle
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Dinna mell wi' it.
- Don't meddle with it.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]mell
- Alternative form of mele
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56
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