mell
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛl/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology 1
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
- mele
Verb
mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)
- (Britain, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell.
Noun
mell
- (UK dialectal) Discourse; conversation.
Etymology 2
From Middle English mellen, from Old French meller, mesler (“to mix, mingle”). Compare mêlée, meddle.
Verb
mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)
- (intransitive, archaic) 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 606515406; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, OCLC 890162479, 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 230694662, 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.”
- c. 1495, John Skelton, "Vppon a deedman's hed":
Etymology 3
From Latin mel.
Noun
mell (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Honey.
- 1586, William Warner, Albion's England
- Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell, nor gall.
- 1586, William Warner, Albion's England
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *melsā (“knuckle”); possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel (“limb”).
Noun
mell
- joint
References
- 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
Alternative forms
- melly (dialectal or archaic)
Etymology
From Proto-Ugric *malkĭ, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mälke. Cognates include Southern Mansi møul, Central Mansi mäėl, Northern Mansi ма̄гыл (māgyl, “breast”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɛlː]
- Rhymes: -ɛlː
Noun
mell (plural mellek)
- (anatomy) breast
- Synonyms: (formal or technical) emlő, (literary, also figurative) kebel, (dated, dialectal, or vulgar) csecs, (vulgar) csöcs, (colloquial or slang) cici
- (anatomy, in certain compounds and phrases) chest
- Synonym: mellkas
- (anatomy, attributive usage) thoracic
- mellüreg ― thoracic cavity
- (swimming) Ellipsis of mellúszás (“breaststroke”)..
Declension
| 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
- mellesleg
- mellett
- mellék
- mellény
- mellső
- mellű
- mellbimbó
- mellbőség
- mellcsont
- mellhártya
- mellkas
- mellszobor
- melltartó
- mellúszás
- mellüreg
- mellvezeték
- mellre szív
- veri a mellét
Further reading
- mell in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Maltese
| Root |
|---|
| m-l-l |
| 3 terms |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛll/
Etymology 1
From Arabic مَلَّ (malla).
Verb
mell (imperfect jmell, verbal noun mella)
- to abhor, to dislike
Conjugation
| 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
From Arabic مَلّ (mall).
Noun
mell m
- blight
Yola
Etymology 1
From Middle English mellen.
Verb
mell
- to meddle
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Dinna mell wi' it.
- Don't meddle with it.
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Noun
mell
- Alternative form of mele
References
- 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