mele
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mele (plural mele or meles)
- A chant in Polynesia, especially Hawaii, typically in praise of a leader or to commemorate some significant event. [from 19th c.]
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 49:
- Lili‘u set to work assisting Fornander by translating mele and legends for him.
Etymology 2 edit
Variant forms.
Noun edit
mele (plural meles)
- Alternative form of mell
Verb edit
mele (third-person singular simple present meles, present participle meling, simple past and past participle meled)
- Alternative form of mell
Anagrams edit
Aiwoo edit
Verb edit
mele
- to fly
References edit
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Corsican edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
Noun edit
mele
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
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mele
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mele (imperative mel, infinitive at mele, present tense meler, past tense melede, perfect tense har melet)
- flour (to apply flour to something)
Gothic edit
Romanization edit
mēlē
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴
Hausa edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)
- loss of pigmentation
Hawaiian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele.
Noun edit
mele
Usage notes edit
Verb edit
mele
References edit
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986
Italian edit
Noun edit
mele f
Latin edit
Noun edit
mēle
References edit
- “mele”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
From melis (“liar”) + -e (“fem.”).
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
mele f (5th declension, masculine form: melis)
- (female) liar, deceiver (someone who is tells lies, who deceives others)
- nekaunīga mele ― shameless (female) liar
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mele (uncountable)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “mēle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
mele
- Alternative form of medle
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
mele
- Alternative form of mylne
Neapolitan edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mele m (uncountable)
References edit
- 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
- Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “mèle”, in Schedario Napoletano
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From mel (“flour”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mele (imperative mel, present tense meler, passive meles, simple past mela or melet or melte, past participle mela or melet or melt, present participle melende)
- to flour (to apply flour to something)
Related terms edit
References edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mele
- inflection of melar:
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
mele
Sardinian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
Noun edit
mele m (plural meles)
References edit
- 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
Serbo-Croatian edit
Participle edit
mele (Cyrillic spelling меле)
Yola edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English mele (“flour”), from Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
mele
- meal (coarse flour)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
mele
- Alternative form of meale (“feast, dinner”)
References edit
- 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 & 61
Zazaki edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *madaxa. Cognate to Persian ملخ (malax), Ossetian мӕты́х (mætýx)
Noun edit
mele
- English terms borrowed from Hawaiian
- English terms derived from Hawaiian
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪleɪ
- Rhymes:English/eɪleɪ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
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- English terms with quotations
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- Aiwoo lemmas
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- Corsican terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
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- Corsican terms inherited from Latin
- Corsican terms derived from Latin
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- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
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- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
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- Hawaiian lemmas
- Hawaiian nouns
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- Latvian lemmas
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- Latvian fifth declension nouns
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- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
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- enm:Grains
- Neapolitan terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Neapolitan terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Neapolitan terms inherited from Latin
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- Neapolitan lemmas
- Neapolitan nouns
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/¹eːlə
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål verbs
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛli
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- Portuguese terms with homophones
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
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- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Romanian terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Romanian/ele
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- Romanian non-lemma forms
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- Sardinian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Sardinian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
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- Sardinian lemmas
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- sc:Foods
- Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms
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- Yola terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Yola terms inherited from Middle English
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- Yola terms inherited from Old English
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- Zazaki terms derived from Proto-Iranian
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- zza:Zoology
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