Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/melu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Noun

*melu n

1. ground corn, meal, flour

Inflection

Neuter wa-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*melu
Genitive	*melwas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*melu	*melu
Accusative	*melu	*melu
Genitive	*melwas	*melwō
Dative	*melwē	*melum
Instrumental	*melu	*melum

Descendants

• Old English: melu, melo, meolo
  • Middle English: mele, meale, meele, melow
    • English: meal
    • Scots: meil, mele
    • Yola: mele, mell
• Old Frisian: mele
  • North Frisian: meel, mal
  • Saterland Frisian: Meel
  • West Frisian: moal
• Old Saxon: melo
  • Middle Low German: mēle, mel
    • Dutch Low Saxon: mael
    • German Low German: Mehl
• Old Dutch: *melo
  • Middle Dutch: mēle, meel
    • Dutch: meel
      • Afrikaans: meel
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: meli
      • Negerhollands: meel, mil
      • → Lokono: meli
    • Limburgish: mael
• Old High German: melo
  • Middle High German: mël
    • Alemannic German: Mël, Mèhl
    • Bavarian: Mej, Möö
    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Meel

      Luxembourgish: Miel

    • German: Mehl
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Mehl

    • Vilamovian: maoł
    • Yiddish: מעל (mel)