-meal
See also: meal
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miːl/
- Rhymes: -iːl
Etymology 1
From Middle English -mele, from Old English -mǣlum (“at times”), from Proto-Germanic *mēlamiz, instrumental case of Proto-Germanic *mēlą (“measure; time”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian -moal, Dutch -maal, German Low German -maal, German -mal. More at meal.
Suffix
-meal
- (rare or no longer productive) Used to denote a fixed number, measure, or amount at a time.
- wordmeal (“one word at a time, word by word”)
Derived terms
- bitmeal
- dropmeal
- flockmeal
- footmeal
- heapmeal
- inchmeal
- leafmeal
- littlemeal
- pagemeal
- piecemeal
- stepmeal
- stoundmeal
- thousandmeal
- whilemeal
- wordmeal
Etymology 2
From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *mol(w)ə- (“to grind, mill”). More at meal.
Suffix
-meal
- Denotes a powder made of ground cereal.
Derived terms
- cornmeal
- oatmeal
- peasemeal
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Anagrams
- Elam, Elma, Lema, Malé, alme, amel, lame, lamé, leam, lema, male, mela, mela-