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Translingual

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mil

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Peñoles Mixtec.

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English

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Etymology 1

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Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g., millilitre, millimetre, milliradian).

Noun

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mil (plural mils)

  2. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 1⁄6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 1⁄6000 and 1⁄6300 are used in other countries.
  4. A unit of measurement equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
    Synonym: thou
    Alternative form: mill
    For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mils thick.
  6. A former subdivision (1⁄1000) of the Maltese lira.
  8. (informal) Clipping of milliliter.
    Synonyms: mL, ml, cm³, cc
    We told her to give her daughter ten mils of cough syrup and to call us back if the cough gets worse.
  10. (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
    Synonym: mm
    Alternative form: mill
    For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mils in diameter.
  12. (informal) Clipping of milliradian.
    A dot in a mil-dot reticle represents one mil, which corresponds to a few inches at 100 yards.
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Translations
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of million.

Noun

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mil (plural mil)

  2. (informal) Clipping of million.
    Word has it that they were offered a cool ten mil to sell their farm to the land developers.
    • 2009, Bob Frey, The DVD Murders, page 39:
      The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil.
    • 2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:
      You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.

Etymology 3

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Clipping of military.

Adjective

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mil (not comparable)

  2. Clipping of military.
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Anagrams

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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Akin to Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Asturian

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Asturian cardinal numbers
 <  999 1000 1001  > 
    Cardinal : mil
    Ordinal : milésimu

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin mīlle.

Numeral

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mil (indeclinable)

  1. one thousand; 1000
    mil llobos ― one thousand wolves
    mil vaques ― one thousand cows

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In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:

  • mil dos ― one thousand two
  • mil trenta y nueve ― one thousand thirty-nine
  • tres mil ― three thousand
  • venti mil ― twenty thousand

Breton

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Welsh mil, Irish míle.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Etymology 2

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From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish mil, Welsh mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””).

Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “lamb”), Armenian մալ (mal, “sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock”), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

Noun

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mil m (plural miled)

  1. (rare) animal
    Synonyms: aneval, loen

Mutation

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Mutation of mil
unmutated soft aspirate hard
singular mil vil unchanged unchanged
plural miled viled unchanged unchanged

Catalan

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Catalan numbers (edit)
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000 1,000,000 (106)  → 
100
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal (Central): milè
    Ordinal (Valencian): milé
    Ordinal: mil·lèsim
Catalan Wikipedia article on 1,000

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

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Numeral

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mil m or f

  1. (cardinal number) thousand

Noun

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mil m (plural mils)

  1. thousand

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Cebuano

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Cebuano numbers (edit)
10,000
[a], [b], [c] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 2,000  →  10,000  → 
100[a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: usá ka libo, libo
    Spanish cardinal: mil

Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish mil (“thousand”).

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Cornish

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Cornish numbers (edit)
[a], [b], [c] ←  1  ←  100 1000
1,000 		1,000,000 (106)  → [a], [b] 1,000,000,000 (109)  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milves
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1000ves
    Adverbial: milweyth
    Multiplier: milblek

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Breton and Welsh mil.

Numeral

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mil

  1. one thousand

Noun

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mil f (plural milyow)

  1. thousand
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Cornish mil, myl, from Old Cornish mil, Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Proto-Celtic *mīlom, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””). Cognate with Breton mil, Irish míol, Manx meeyl, Scottish Gaelic mial, and Welsh mil.

Noun

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mil m (plural miles)

  1. animal
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Mutation

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Mutation of mil
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
mil vil unchanged unchanged fil vil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

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mil m

  1. honey

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

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Noun

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mil

  1. mile, unit of length of varying value

Declension

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Declension of mil
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mil milen mil milene
genitive mils milens mils milenes

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Esperanto

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Esperanto numbers (edit)
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000
100
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: mila
    Adverbial: mile
    Multiplier: milobla, milopa
    Fractional: milona, milono

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mīlle. Doublet of mejlo.

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Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Estonian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]
  • Hyphenation: mil

Etymology 1

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Clipping of millal.

Conjunction

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mil

  1. when
    Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.
    There will once be a day when we have to go.

Etymology 2

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Clipping of millel.

Adverb

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mil (not comparable)

  1. that
    Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.
    There was a car on the street that had red stripes.

French

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Etymology

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From Latin milium.

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Noun

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mil m (plural mils)

  1. (now dialectal) millet
    Synonym: millet

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Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Galician

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Galician numbers (edit)
[a], [b], [c] ←  100  ←  900 1,000
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    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1000º
    Fractional: milésimo
 
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Carro

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmiɫ]
  • Rhymes: -il
  • Hyphenation: mil

Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

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mil (indeclinable)

  1. one thousand; 1000

Etymology 2

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1474. From Vulgar Latin *medianile, from Latin mediānus. Compare the cognates mión and molo.[1]

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Noun

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mil m (plural miles)

  1. central piece of the Galician cart wheel
    Synonyms: mión, miúl, molo
    • 1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:
      Iten, preçaron hun rrodisioe dous miilles de carro em noventa maravedis
      Item, they appraised a water wheel and two wheel centers of a cart in ninety maravedis

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  1. ^ Cf. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “medio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Gamilaraay

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Noun

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mil

  1. eye

Haitian Creole

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Noun

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mil

  1. thousand (1,000)
  2. mile (measure of distance)

Ido

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    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milesma
    Adverbial: milfoye
    Multiplier: milopla
    Fractional: milima

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Borrowed from Esperanto mil, French mille, Italian mille, Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

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mil

  1. thousand

Ilocano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish mil.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
  • Hyphenation: mil

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mil

  1. thousand
    Synonym: ribo

Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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From Dutch mijl, from Middle Dutch mile, ultimately from Latin mīlia.

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mil (plural mil-mil)

  1. English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km
  2. (historical) mijl, Dutch mile or league, a unit of distance equivalent to about 5–6 km
  3. milepost, milestone, km marker
    Synonyms: batu, pal, tonggak
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Etymology 2

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From English mail, from Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (“bag, wallet”), from Frankish *malha (“bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch”).

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mil (plural mil-mil)

  1. (dialectal) mail (the material conveyed by the postal service)
    Synonym: surat elektronik

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mil,[1] from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to milis and blas.

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Noun

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mil f (genitive singular meala)

  1. honey

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Declension of mil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative mil
vocative a mhil
genitive meala
dative mil
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an mhil
genitive na meala
dative leis an mil
don mhil

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of mil
radical lenition eclipsis
mil mhil not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 99, page 39

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Kabuverdianu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese mil.

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mil

  1. thousand (1000)

Ladin

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

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mil f (uncountable)

  1. honey

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Ladino

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish mil or Old Spanish mill, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

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mil (Hebrew spelling מיל)[1]

  1. thousand (1,000)
    • 2000, Aki Yerushalayim‎[2], numbers 62–64, page 76:
      Diezisiete anyos tenia Moshe Aelion kuando fue deportado por los almanes a Auschwitz, djuntos kon su madre i su ermana i los serka de 60 mil djudios de Saloniko.
      Moshe Aelion was seventeen years old when he was deported by the Germans to Auschwitz, together with his mother, sister, and around sixty thousand Jews from Salonica.

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  1. ^ “mil”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

Louisiana Creole

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Louisiana Creole cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : mil

Etymology

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Inherited from French mille (“thousand”).

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mil

  1. thousand

Lule

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Pronoun

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mil

  1. you (plural)

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  • Antonio Maccioni / Machoni, Arte y vocabulario de la lengua lule y tonocoté (1732)

Maltese

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Etymology

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From Arabic مِيل (mīl).

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mil m (dual milejn, plural mjiel or mili)

  1. mile

Mòcheno

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Etymology

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From Middle High German mül, müle, from Old High German mulī, mulin, from Proto-Germanic *mulīnō, *mulīnaz, from Late Latin molīnum (“mill”). Cognate with German Mühle, English mill.

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mil f

  1. mill

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Ngiyambaa

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Noun

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mil

  1. (anatomy) eye

Northern Kurdish

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Noun

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mil ?

  1. arm
  2. shoulder
  3. neck

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

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mil m or f (definite singular mila or milen, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

  1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
  2. gammel norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
  3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

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mil f (definite singular mila, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

  1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
  2. gammal norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
  3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

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Indefinite plural miler was made non-standard by the spelling reform of 2012.

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Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand
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Further reading

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  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎[3], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 648.

Old English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

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Noun

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mīl f

  1. mile
    • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
      Sardina is þrī and þrītti mīla lang, and twā and twentiġ mīla brād.
      Sardinia is thirty-three miles long, and twenty-two miles wide.

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Strong ō-stem:

singular plural
nominative mīl mīla, mīle
accusative mīle mīla, mīle
genitive mīle mīla
dative mīle mīlum

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  • Middle English: myle, mile

Old French

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Numeral

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mil

  1. Alternative form of mile (“thousand”)

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

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mil

  1. thousand (1,000)

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  • Galician: mil
  • Portuguese: mil
    • → Kadiwéu: miili
    • > Papiamentu: mil (inherited)

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *meli n, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.

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mil f (genitive melo)

  1. honey
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7d9
      Hi sunt tra ↄ·ricc frissa lind serb in chúrsactha lase foruillecta beóil in chalich di mil cosse anall...
      Herein, then, he comes into contact with the bitter drink of the reproval, when the lips of the chalice have hitherto been smeared with honey...

Inflection

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Feminine i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative mil — —
vocative mil — —
accusative milN — —
genitive meloH, melaH — —
dative milL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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Mutation

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Mutation of mil
radical lenition nasalization
mil
also mmil after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		mil
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Old Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand (1,000)
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 36r.:
      Job fue much rich õe e ouo .v. fijos. ⁊ .iij. fijas. ⁊ ouo .mil. ouejas. ⁊ .iij. mil. camellos. ⁊ .d. iugos de bueẏes. ⁊ .v. mil aſnas. ⁊ tẽtol el diablo ⁊ diol pođ nr̃o ſẽnor ſobre quãto auia.
      Job was a very rich man. And he had five sons and three daughters. And he owned a thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five thousand donkeys. And the Devil tempted him and Our Lord gave him power over all that he had.

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  • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “mil”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 344

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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Inherited from Portuguese mil and Spanish mil and Kabuverdianu mil.

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mil

  1. thousand (1,000)

Pipil

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Etymology

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Compare Classical Nahuatl milpan.

Noun

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mil

  1. cornfield

Further reading

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  • Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
  • Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

Portuguese

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Portuguese numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 10,000  →  1,000,000 (106)  → 
100[a], [b]
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1000.º, 1000º
    Fractional: milésimo, mil avos

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
  • Hyphenation: mil

Adjective

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mil m or f

  2. one thousand; a thousand; 1000
  4. (somewhat poetic) thousands of (very many)
    Synonyms: milhares de, um milhão de

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

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Descendants

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  • → Kadiwéu: miili
  • > Papiamentu: mil (inherited)

Romanian

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Noun

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mil n (plural miluri)

  1. Obsolete form of milă.

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Declension of mil
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative mil milul miluri milurile
genitive-dative mil milului miluri milurilor
vocative milule milurilor

References

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  • mil in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mil (genitive mela), from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Welsh mêl, Cornish mill, Breton mel, Latin mel, Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

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Noun

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mil f (genitive singular mealach or meala, plural mealan)

  1. honey
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Mutation

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Mutation of mil
radical lenition
mil mhil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “mil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[4], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *milъ. Cognate with Polish miły.

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Adjective

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mȋl (comparative milȇjši, superlative nȁjmilȇjši)

  1. kind
  2. dear

Declension

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 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Hard
masculine feminine neuter
nom. sing. míl míla mílo
singular
masculine feminine neuter
nominative míl ind
míli def 		míla mílo
genitive mílega míle mílega
dative mílemu míli mílemu
accusative nominativeinan or
genitiveanim 		mílo mílo
locative mílem míli mílem
instrumental mílim mílo mílim
dual
masculine feminine neuter
nominative míla míli míli
genitive mílih mílih mílih
dative mílima mílima mílima
accusative míla míli míli
locative mílih mílih mílih
instrumental mílima mílima mílima
plural
masculine feminine neuter
nominative míli míle míla
genitive mílih mílih mílih
dative mílim mílim mílim
accusative míle míle míla
locative mílih mílih mílih
instrumental mílimi mílimi mílimi

Further reading

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  • “mil”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Spanish

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Spanish numbers (edit)
10,000
[a], [b] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 2,000  →  10,000  → 
100[a], [b]
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1000.º
    Fractional: milésimo

Etymology

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From Old Spanish mil or Old Spanish mill, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (“one thousand”).

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Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Usage notes

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  • When pluralized as a specific number, the form mil is still used:
    dos mil pesos ― two thousand pesos
    cien mil pesos ― one hundred thousand pesos

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Descendants

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Noun

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mil m (plural miles)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) thousand (1000 units of something) (usually in an indefinite sense)
    Gané muchos miles de dólares.
    I earned many thousands of dollars

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Swedish

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)." First attested in the latter half of the 14th century[1].

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Noun

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mil c

  1. (after 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters
    Synonyms: nymil, myriameter
    • 2020 February 19, Maria Dahlin, “Sverige prisas för 2+1-väg [Sweden is praised for 2+1 road]”, in Vi bilägare:
      IRAP rekommenderar nu bland annat Indien och Mexiko att bygga 2+1-vägar och tar som exempel att 93.000 liv skulle kunna räddas på 20 år i Indien om 1.750 mil mötesväg gjordes om till 2+1-väg.
      IRAP is now recommending countries like India and Mexico to build 2+1 roads and cites an example that 93,000 lives could be saved over 20 years in India if 17,500 kilometres of two-way roads were converted to 2+1 roads.
      (literally, “1,750 miles”)
    • 2024 August 30, Tindra Näsström, “Humam i Härnösand gick från otränad till att springa tio mil: ”Ville kliva ur min bekväma bubbla” [Humam in Härnösand went from untrained to running ten miles [100 km/62 mi]: "Wanted to step out of my comfort bubble"]”, in SVT Nyheter:
      Genom att våga pusha sig själv har Humam lyckats springa tio mil på tiden 13 timmar och 28 minuter.
      By daring to push himself, Humam has managed to run ten miles [100 km/62 mi] in 13 hours and 28 minutes.
    • 2025 January 29, Kalle Hultenius, “Ölands fotbolls-vagabonder – åtta mil hemifrån [Öland’s football vagabonds – eight miles [80 km/50 mi] from home]”, in Ölandsbladet:
      Böda/Högby är vana att jobba över stora ytor och den klassiska minibussen har förmodligen gått miljontals mil de senaste decennierna.
      Böda/Högby are used to covering vast distances, and their classic minibus has probably clocked up millions of miles over the past few decades.
  2. (between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 18,000 ells or 10,688.54 meters
    Synonym: landmil
    • 1831, Fredrik Cederborgh, Berättelse om […] John Hall, page 5:
      För att kunna åtkomma dylikt, wäl rätt artigt men föga räntegifwande kram, beslöt han, att, med en särdeles wäl försedd kaßa, resa till Danmarks hufwudstad, ungefär trettio mil aflägsen från deß födelseort Götheborg.
      In order to be able to access such, indeed quite polite but hardly interest bearing hug, he decided, with a particularly well-stocked purse, to travel to Denmark's capital city, about thirty miles distant from their birthplace, Gothenburg.
  3. (before 1699) Unit of length, with varying measurements depending on time period and region.

Declension

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Declension of mil
nominative genitive
singular indefinite mil mils
definite milen milens
plural indefinite mil mils
definite milen milens

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ mil in Svensk ordbok (SO)

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Tagalog

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Tagalog numbers (edit)
10,000
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000 1,100  →  2,000  → 
100
    Cardinal: sanlibo, isang libo
    Spanish cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: ikalibo, panlibo, ikasanlibo, pansanlibo
    Ordinal abbreviation: ika-1000, pang-1000
    Adverbial: makalibo, makalilibo, makasanlibo
    Multiplier: sanlibong ibayo
    Distributive: libo-libo, panlibo, tigsanlibo, sanlibuhan, sanli-sanlibo
    Collective: libo
    Restrictive: sasanlibo
    Fractional: kasanlibo, sangkasanlibo, ikasanlibo, saikasanlibo
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 1,000

Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

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mil (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎ᜔)

  1. thousand
    Synonym: libo
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Further reading

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  • “mil”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

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Tatar

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Noun

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mil

  1. (archaic) a unit of length: 1 mil = 7 çaqrım = 7.467 km (see Obsolete Tatar units of measurement)

Declension

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    declension of mil
Nominative mil
Genitive milnıñ
Dative milga
Accusative milnı
Locative milda
Ablative mildan

Turkish

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Noun

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mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

  1. mile (measure of length)

Volapük

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Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Vurës

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French mille, from Latin mīlle.[1]

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Noun

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mil

  1. One thousand vatu (currency of Vanuatu).

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  1. ^ Catriona Malau (September 2021) “mil”, in A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu (Asia-Pacific Linguistics), Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 121

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish mil, Breton mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (“small animal””).

Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “lamb”), Armenian մալ (mal, “sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock”), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, “livestock”), Dutch maal (“calf”).

Noun

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mil m (plural milod, diminutive milyn)

  1. animal, beast, creature
  2. vermin (animal not normally eaten by people)
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Etymology 2

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Welsh numbers (edit)
10,000[a], [b]
[a], [b], [c] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 2,000  →  10,000  → [a], [b]
100[a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: mil

From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Breton mil, Irish míle.

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mil f (plural miloedd)

  1. (cardinal number) one thousand
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of mil
radical soft nasal aspirate
mil fil unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wiradjuri

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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mil

  1. (anatomy) eye

Yagara

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Noun

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mil

  1. eye

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Verb

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mil

  1. to run
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