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mell

See also: Mell, mẹll, mełł, mèll, and mëll

English

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Etymology 1

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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.

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Verb

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mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)

  1. (British, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell.

Noun

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mell

  1. (UK dialectal) Discourse; conversation.

Etymology 2

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From Middle English mellen, medlen, from Old French meller, mesler (“to mix, mingle”). Doublet of meddle.

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mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.

Etymology 3

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From Middle English mel, mell, melle, from Latin mell-, mel.[1][2] Doublet of mel.

Noun

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mell (uncountable)

  2. (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

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Noun

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mell (uncountable)

  1. The last grain cut at harvest; kern

See also

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References

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  1. ^ “mell, n.2”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “mel, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Breton

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *melsā (“knuckle”); possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel (“limb”).

Noun

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mell

  1. joint

References

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  • 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

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Alternative forms

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  • melly (dialectal or archaic)

Etymology

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From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mälke. Cognates include Southern Mansi [script needed] (møul), Eastern Mansi мавлын (mavlyn) and Northern Mansi ма̄гыл (māgyl, “breast”).

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Noun

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mell (plural mellek)

  1. (anatomy) breast
    Synonyms: (formal or technical) emlő, (literary, also figurative) kebel, (dated, dialectal, or vulgar) csecs, (vulgar) csöcs, (colloquial or slang) cici
  2. (anatomy, in certain compounds and phrases) chest
    Synonym: mellkas
  3. (anatomy, attributive usage) thoracic
    mellüreg ― thoracic cavity
  4. (swimming) Ellipsis of mellúszás (“breaststroke”)..

Declension

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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

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Further reading

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  • 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

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Root
m-l-l
3 terms

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Etymology 1

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From Arabic مَلَّ (malla).

Verb

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mell (imperfect jmell, verbal noun mella)

  1. to abhor, to dislike
Conjugation
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    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

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From Arabic مَلّ (mall).

Noun

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mell m

  1. blight

Tarifit

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic مل (mall).

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Verb

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mell (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⴻⵍⵍ)

  1. (transitive) to detest, to be repulsed, to dislike
  2. (transitive) to be fed up

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Derived terms

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  • Verbal noun: amelli (“weariness”)

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English mellen.

Verb

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mell

  1. to meddle
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Dinna mell wi' it.
      Don't meddle with it.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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mell

  1. Alternative form of mele

References

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  • 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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