mell
English edit
Pronunciation edit
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], “Iuly. Aegloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →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.
- 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
Noun edit
mell (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Honey.
- 1586, William Warner, Albion's England:
- Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell, nor gall.
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
mell (uncountable)
- The last grain cut at harvest; kern
See also edit
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 møul, Central Mansi mäėl, 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) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|
| m-l-l |
| 3 terms |
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
mell (imperfect jmell, verbal noun mella)
Conjugation edit
| Conjugation of mell | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Yola 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 (1867), 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, page 56