meel

See also: Meel

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch meel, from Middle Dutch mēle, Old Dutch *melo, Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: meel

Noun

meel (uncountable)

1. flour

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mēle, Old Dutch *melo, Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːl/

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• Hyphenation: meel
• Rhymes: -eːl

Noun

meel n (uncountable)

1. flour, meal, farina

Derived terms

• bakmeel
• glutenmeel
• griesmeel
• meeldeeg
• meeldraad
• meelworm
• meelzak
• roggemeel
• stuifmeel
• tarwemeel
• volkorenmeel
• zetmeel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: meel
• Berbice Creole Dutch: meli
• Negerhollands: meel, mil
• → Arawak: meli

Anagrams

• leem

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *meeli, From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mjalʹ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).

Noun

meel (genitive meele, partitive meelt)

1. sense

   Viis meelt.

   The five senses.

2. emotion, feeling

   Mul on hea meel, et ma sinuga kohtusin.

   I'm glad that I met you. (lit. "I have a good feeling that I met you")

3. opinion, idea

   Me oleme samal meelel.

   We have the same opinion.

4. (generally with järgi, järele) wish, desire

   See asi pole mulle meele järgi.

   This thing isn't to my desire. (i.e "I don't like this")

5. (mostly in the locative cases) memory

   Mulle ei jää asjad meelde.

   I don't remember things. (lit. "Things don't stay into my memory.")

   Mul läks meelest ära.

   I forgot. (lit. "It went from my memory")

6. (colloquial) mind, intelligence, smarts

   Viin võtab meele meeste peast.

   Vodka takes the mind out of men.

Usage notes

All senses except for "sense" and "mind" are mostly used in a large number of various fixed phrases.

Declension

Inflection of meel (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	meel	meeled
accusative	meele	meeled
genitive	meele	meelte
partitive	meelt	meeli
illative	meelde meelesse	meeltesse meelisse
inessive	meeles	meeltes meelis
elative	meelest	meeltest meelist
allative	meelele	meeltele meelile
adessive	meelel	meeltel meelil
ablative	meelelt	meeltelt meelilt
translative	meeleks	meelteks meeliks
terminative	meeleni	meelteni
essive	meelena	meeltena
abessive	meeleta	meelteta
comitative	meelega	meeltega

Etymology 2

Noun

meel

1. adessive singular of mesi

Ingrian

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːl/, [ˈmeːlʲ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːl/, [ˈme̝ːl]
• Rhymes: -eːl
• Hyphenation: meel

Noun

meel

1. Alternative form of meeli

Declension

Declension of meel (type 5/keeli, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	meel	meelet
genitive	meelen	meeliin, meelilöin
partitive	meeltä, meelt	meeliä, meelilöjä
illative	meelee	meelii, meelilöihe
inessive	meelees	meeliis, meelilöis
elative	meelest	meelist, meelilöist
allative	meelelle	meelille, meelilöille
adessive	meeleel	meeliil, meelilöil
ablative	meelelt	meelilt, meelilöilt
translative	meeleks	meeliks, meelilöiks
essive	meelennä, meeleen	meelinnä, meelilöinnä, meeliin, meelilöin
exessive1)	meelent	meelint, meelilöint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈme.elːæ/, [ˈme̞.e̞lʲː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈme.el/, [ˈme̞.e̞l]
• Rhymes: -e.elː, -e.el
• Hyphenation: me‧el

Noun

meel

1. adessive singular of mesi

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 308
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[1], →ISBN, page 63

Somali

Noun

meel ?

1. place

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mèːɽ]

  Rhymes: -èːɽ

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mæla, from Proto-Germanic *maþlijaną.

Verb

meel

1. murmur dissatisfied

Etymology 2

From Old Norse merðr, merð, whence also Norwegian merd, Finnish merta and Swedish mjärde, possibly from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to plait, weave, bind”). See also Proto-Slavic *merža (“net”) and Ancient Greek μέρμις (mérmis, “rope, cord”), though these connections are far from certain.

Noun

meel n (definite singular mele)

1. (fishing) part of the fish trap, wherein the fish are trapped
2. sound, strait

Derived terms

• melbann (“the band that causes the constriction”)