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单词 mill
释义

mill

See also: Mill

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mĭl, IPA(key): /mɪl/, [mɪɫ]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪl
  • Homophone: mil

Etymology 1

From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moulin.

Noun

mill (plural mills)

  1. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
    Hyponym: pepper mill
    Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
  2. The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
    Hyponyms: flour mill, grist mill, windmill
    My grandfather worked in a mill.
  3. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
    a cider mill; a cane mill
  4. A machine for grinding and polishing.
    a lapidary mill
  5. A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
    lathes, mills, and drill presses
  6. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
  7. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
    Hyponyms: paper mill, steel mill, textile mill
  8. A building housing such a plant.
  9. (figurative) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
  10. (figurative, derogatory) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
  11. (informal) An engine.
  12. (informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
    • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
      […] he is relieved from present responsibility to the Chicken, by the absence of that game head of poultry in the country, training (at Toots's cost) for his great mill with the Larkey Boy.
    • 1902 October 1, The Sydney Sportsman, page 5, column 6:
      The mill lasted four rounds, when giddy little Ettie was declared the victress.
    • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker‎, All-Story Cavalier Weekly:
      The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a good mill.
  13. (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
  14. (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  15. (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  16. A milling cutter.
  17. (historical) A prison treadmill.
    • 1837, James Williams, A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (page 9)
      Next morning they put me on the treadmill along with the others: At first, not knowing how to dance it, I cut all my shin with the steps; they did not flog me then — […] They keep on putting her on the mill for a week, and flog her every time […]
  18. (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
    • 1941, QST (volume 25, issues 2-6, page 90)
      In other words, get a mill in your operating position by hook or crook and use it regularly. At the N.C.R. Radio Schools touch typing is taught at the same time code proficiency is advanced.
    • 1986, Ham Radio Magazine (volume 19, page 66)
      You can read it all right, but the pencil seems to be getting a little sluggish — better make a grab for a "mill."
Synonyms
  • (plant, building): factory, works
Derived terms
  • accreditation mill
  • author mill
  • Barcombe Mills
  • Bardon Mill
  • Barker's mill
  • born in a mill
  • cog mill
  • cotton mill
  • diploma mill
  • essay mill
  • grist for the mill
  • gristmill
  • grist to the mill
  • Langley Mill
  • Little Mill, Littlemill
  • Marsh Mills
  • Martin Mill
  • Millbank
  • miller
  • Mill Hill
  • millhouse
  • milling
  • mill race, millrace
  • Mills Hill
  • millstone
  • Milltown
  • mill wheel, millwheel
  • Mississippi Mills
  • more sacks to the mill
  • Newmill
  • New Mills
  • no mill, no meal
  • ordination mill
  • paper mill
  • pecker mill
  • Pen Mill
  • pill mill
  • powder mill
  • pulp mill
  • puppy mill
  • rice mill
  • Riding Mill
  • Ridings Mill
  • rolling mill
  • rumor mill, rumour mill
  • run-of-the-mill
  • Sea Mills
  • slitting mill (mill)
  • Slitting Mill (village)
  • steel mill
  • Stone Mills
  • Temple Mills
  • tide mill
  • Tide Mills
  • trouble at t'mill
  • Union Mills
  • watermill
  • windmill
  • Woodhouse Mill
in toponyms of Canada
  • Algoma Mills
  • Allan Mills
  • Anten Mills
  • Armstrong Mills
  • Ashby Mills
  • Balmoral Mills
  • Batemans Mills
  • Bay du Vin Mills
  • Bellamys Mill
  • Bells Mills
  • Berry Mills
  • Birge Mills
  • Brewers Mills
  • Cails Mills
  • Caledonia Mills
  • Camerons Mill
  • Cedar Mills
  • Coates Mills
  • Conns Mills
  • Conquerall Mills
  • Cooks Mills
  • Dalhousie Mills
  • Davis Mill
  • Davis Mills
  • Dawn Mills
  • Densmore Mills
  • Don Mills
  • Eden Mills
  • Edys Mills
  • Erin Mills
  • Feir Mill
  • Fords Mills
  • Fowlies Mill
  • Frasers Mills
  • German Mills
  • Goodwin Mill
  • Grays Mills
  • Grey Mills
  • Halls Mills
  • Hampshire Mills
  • Harmony Mills
  • Harrison Mills
  • Hempstock Mill
  • Herron's Mills
  • Horning's Mills
  • Imperial Mills
  • Jewetts Mills
  • Killams Mills
  • La Rue Mills
  • Links Mills
  • Liscomb Mills
  • Lockharts Mill
  • Longford Mills
  • Lords Mills
  • Lueck Mill
  • MacIntosh Mill
  • Mavis Mills
  • McKees Mills
  • McPhersons Mills
  • Mill Cove
  • Mill Road
  • Mill Settlement
  • Mill Village
  • Mississippi Mills
  • Moiles Mills
  • Mono Mills
  • National Mills
  • New Mills
  • Newton Mills
  • Old Mill
  • Oxford Mills
  • Pelletiers Mill
  • Peters Mills
  • Rock Mills
  • Sheffield Mills
  • Steeves Mills
  • Stone Mills
  • Tay Mills
  • Teeds Mills
  • Tracey Mills
  • Vernon Mills
  • Whites Mills
  • Wiggins Mill
  • Yonge Mills
  • York Mills
in toponyms of the United States
  • Adams Mills
  • Advance Mills
  • Allens Mills
  • Anthonies Mill
  • Armstrongs Mills
  • Arnco Mills
  • Arnold Mill
  • Atkinson Mills
  • Austins Mill
  • Aylett Mill
  • Baileys Mills
  • Baldwins Mill
  • Balls Mills
  • Banner Mills
  • Barre Mills
  • Barrs Mills
  • Bay Mills
  • Beards Mill
  • Beaver Mills
  • Becks Mill
  • Bells Mills
  • Belvidere Mills
  • Bennetts Mill
  • Blackiston Mill
  • Blairs Mills
  • Blodget Mills
  • Blue Mills
  • Bonenyville Mills
  • Bonnots Mill
  • Bowens Mill
  • Bowers Mill
  • Boylers Mill
  • Brooks Mill
  • Browns Mill
  • Buffalo Mills
  • Bumpus Mills
  • Burlington Mills
  • Burnt Mills
  • Byrnes Mill
  • Cagle Mill
  • Caplinger Mills
  • Carpenter's Mill
  • Carrier Mills
  • Cedar Mills
  • Charter Oak Mills
  • Clark Mills
  • Clarks Mills
  • Coles Mills
  • Cones Mills
  • Cooks Mills
  • Coopers Mills
  • Crockett Mills
  • Cruise Mill
  • Cuba Mills
  • Deer's Mill
  • Delhi Mills
  • Detters Mill
  • Dixons Mills
  • Doolittle Mills
  • Duncan Mills
  • Dunn Mill
  • Dutch Mills
  • Eagle Mills
  • Eakles Mills
  • Eden Mills
  • Edna Mills
  • Ednas Mill
  • Egypt Mills
  • Eldridge Mill
  • Electric Mills
  • Elk Mills
  • Etna Mills
  • Eureka Mill
  • Evans Mills
  • Falls Mills
  • Felts Mills
  • Fickling Mill
  • Fine Creek Mills
  • Fletcher Mill
  • Forest Mills
  • Fort Kent Mills
  • Foster Mills
  • French Mills
  • Fuhrmans Mill
  • Gang Mills
  • Garretts Mill
  • Gates Mills
  • Gayle Mill
  • Gays Mills
  • Georges Mill
  • Georges Mills
  • Gilmore Mills
  • Glebe Mills
  • Glen Mills
  • Goods Mill
  • Gravois Mills
  • Great Mills
  • Greenfield Mills
  • Guinea Mills
  • Gulph Mills
  • Guys Mills
  • Hahns Mill
  • Hannahs Mill
  • Harrison Mills
  • Hasslers Mill
  • Heath Mills
  • Henrys Mill
  • Holmes Mill
  • Hood's Mill
  • Hoopers Mill
  • Hoover Mill
  • Hope Mills
  • Hopewell Mill
  • Howell Mills
  • Howes Mill
  • Hudson Mills
  • Huntington Mills
  • Hurdle Mills
  • Hurricane Mills
  • Inman Mills
  • Jasper Mills
  • Jersey Mills
  • Jones Mill
  • Kemp Mill
  • Kemps Mill
  • Kings Mills
  • Klines Mill
  • Knox Mills
  • Kremlin Mill
  • Kyles Mills
  • Lake Mill
  • Lake Mills
  • Lancaster Mill
  • Lanes Mills
  • Laniers Mill
  • Laurel Mill
  • Laurel Mills
  • Lawthorne Mill
  • Lecontes Mills
  • Lees Mill
  • Levick Mill
  • Lewis Mill
  • Liberty Mills
  • Lillard Mill
  • Linton Mills
  • Loddes Mill
  • London Mills
  • Lusby's Mill
  • Lusks Mills
  • Luthers Mills
  • Madison Mills
  • Maples Mill
  • Marion Mills
  • Marquand Mills
  • Marstons Mills
  • Martin's Mills
  • Massies Mill
  • McDonalds Mill
  • McGees Mills
  • Meyers Mill
  • Midway Mills
  • Milford Mill
  • Milford Mills
  • Mill Bridge
  • Mill Neck
  • Mill Spring
  • Milton Mills
  • Monarch Mill
  • Monroe Mills
  • Moores Mill
  • Morse Mill
  • Moscow Mills
  • Moshers Mill
  • Motleys Mill
  • Mountain Mills
  • Muses Mills
  • Nevada Mills
  • New York Mills
  • Noser Mill
  • Oakland Mills
  • Orange Mill
  • Osage Mills
  • Osceola Mills
  • Owings Mills
  • Oxford Mills
  • Parkins Mills
  • Patten Mills
  • Peola Mills
  • Pine Grove Mills
  • Pleasant Mills
  • Pond Creek Mills
  • Porter's Mills
  • Portland Mills
  • Post Mills
  • Potomac Mills
  • Potters Mills
  • Pounding Mill
  • Prices Mill
  • Pulleys Mill
  • Putneys Mill
  • Redings Mill
  • Red Oaks Mill
  • Reeds Mill
  • Reedy Mill
  • Reifs Mills
  • Repton Mills
  • Ridings Mill
  • Rinard Mills
  • Rix Mills
  • Rochester Mills
  • Rock Mills
  • Rolands Mill
  • Roses Mill
  • Ruddels Mills
  • Salisbury Mills
  • Scarlets Mill
  • Schechs Mill
  • Scioto Mills
  • Scotts Mill
  • Shack Mills
  • Shelors Mill
  • Sheppards Mill
  • Shirley Mills
  • Sirons Mill
  • Slate Mills
  • Smith Mills
  • Smiths Mill
  • Smyrna Mills
  • Sni Mills
  • Solon Mills
  • South Mills
  • Sprankle Mills
  • Spring Mill
  • Spring Mills
  • Star Mill
  • Star Mills
  • Starrs Mill
  • Steam Mill
  • Stone Quarry Mills
  • Stony Creek Mills
  • Stony Mill
  • Strodes Mills
  • Summit Mills
  • Tacketts Mill
  • Taylor Mill
  • Tisch Mills
  • Todds Mill
  • Travis Mill
  • Trenton Mills
  • Trents Mill
  • Troy Mills
  • Tunis Mills
  • Turners Mill
  • Twymans Mill
  • Union Mill
  • Union Mills
  • Vales Mills
  • Walker Mill
  • Wallace Mills
  • Walthall Mill
  • Washington Mills
  • Waterford Mills
  • Water Mill
  • Watts Mills
  • Weston Mills
  • White Mills
  • Wilson's Mills
  • Winnsboro Mills
  • Withers Mill
  • Woodland Mills
  • Woods Mill
  • Wye Mills
  • Wynns Mill
  • Yancey Mills
  • Yancy Mills
  • Yeakle Mill
Descendants
  • Sranan Tongo: miri
  • → Hindi: मिल (mil)
Translations
milling cutter — see milling cutter
treadmill — see treadmill
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Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

  1. (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
    to mill flour
  2. (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
  3. (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
  4. (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
    I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
    • 1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., OCLC 929793067:
      The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, while the Eaters of Flesh skirmished round its edge.
    • 2021 July 8, Sheera Frenkel; Cecilia Kang, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:
      As guests milled around them, he [Zuckerberg] described his goal of turning every person in the country with an internet connection into a Facebook user.
  5. (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
    to mill cattle
  6. (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
  7. (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
  8. (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, The Madness of Private Ortheris
      Ortheris said nothing for a while. Then he unslung his belt, heavy with the badges of half a dozen regiments that his own had lain with, and handed it over to Mulvaney.
      "I'm too little for to mill you, Mulvaney," said he, "an' you've strook me before; but you can take an' cut me in two with this 'ere if you like."
    • 1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, OCLC 1903243:
      […] he had “milled” a policeman
  9. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  10. (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
  11. (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
  12. (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
    This maize mills well.
  13. (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
  14. (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
  15. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
    • 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Bullen, Arthur Henry, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton‎, volume 4, published 1885, Act 5, Scene 1, pages 128–129:
      Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
    • 1818, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in The Heart of Midlothian:
      And why not?—You would think little of peaching and hanging him for this Scotch affair.—Rat me, one might have milled the Bank of England, and less noise about it.
Synonyms
  • (move about in an aimless fashion): roam, wander
Derived terms
  • millable
  • nonmilled
  • unmilled
Translations

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin millesimum.

Noun

Missouri mill token.

mill (plural mills)

  1. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
  2. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
Synonyms
  • (one thousandth part): permille, ‰, ₥
Coordinate terms
  • (one thousandth part):
  • percent
  • basis point
Derived terms
  • millage
Translations

Noun

mill (plural mill)

  1. (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”)

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mill (plural mills)

  1. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

Etymology 5

Back-formation from millstone, name of a Magic: The Gathering card with this effect (first printed 1994).

Alternative forms

  • Mill (in the sense of "a strategy")

Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

  1. (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
  2. (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
    • 2018 October 9, Ozzie Mejia, “Hearthstone: 4 decks to watch during the 2018 HCT Fall Championship”, in Shacknews‎:
      what happens when a Quest Rogue uses Vanish and Malygos gets milled?
Synonyms
  • (Hearthstone): burn
Derived terms
  • self-mill

Noun

mill (countable and uncountable, plural mills)

  1. (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
    • 2018 October 14, Jay Castello, “Pro Hearthstone player burns key card with perfect comedic timing”, in Rock Paper Shotgun‎:
      he’s had some fairly infamous mills in other events. Back in 2017’s Spring Championships, he burned the crucial Archmage Antonidas
  2. (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
    • 2018 June 16, Wavelength, “Efficient Off-Meta Decks Spotlight”, in Fade2Karma‎:
      Kingsane [sic – meaning Kingsbane] Rogue will forever have a negative connotation attached to it because it began as a mill deck, and mill is one of the most tilt-inducing strategies in fantasy card games.
    • 2018 September 24, Collin MacGregor, “Top 10 Guilds of Ravnica Commander Cards in Magic The Gathering”, in heavy.‎:
      Great for mill, control, or even Voltron decks, Mnemonic Betrayal is a fantastic addition regardless of your strategy.
Derived terms
  • Mill Rogue
Translations

References

  • mill in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • mill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Further reading

  • mill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Mill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Albanian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Albanian *meila (“fastening (of a knife)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to attach, fasten”).[1]

Noun

mill m (indefinite plural mille, definite singular milli, definite plural millet)

  1. sheath

Declension

Declension of mill
indefinite forms
(trajta të pashquara)		definite forms
(trajta të shquara)
singular
(numri njëjës)		plural
(numri shumës)		singular
(numri njëjës)		plural
(numri shumës)
nominative
(emërore)		(një) mill(disa) millemillimillet
accusative
(kallëzore)		(një) mill(disa) millemillinmillet
genitive
(gjinore)
(i/e/të/së)		(një) milli(disa) millevemillitmillevet
dative
(dhanore)		(një) milli(disa) millevemillitmillevet
ablative
(rrjedhore)
(prej)		(një) milli(disa) milleshmillitmillevet

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “mill”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 266

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin milium.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈmiʎ/
  • Rhymes: -iʎ

Noun

mill m (plural mills)

  1. millet

Derived terms

  • mill del sol

Further reading

  • “mill” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “mill”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
  • “mill” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “mill” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mʲiːlʲ], [mʲɪlʲ]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”).

Verb

mill (present analytic milleann, future analytic millfidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) spoil; mar, ruin
    1. ravish
Conjugation
First Conjugation (A)
singularpluralrelativeautonomous
firstsecondthirdfirstsecondthird
indicativepresentmillimmilleann tú;
millir†		milleann sé, símillimidmilleann sibhmilleann siad;
millid†		a mhilleann; a mhilleas /
a milleann*; a milleas*		milltear
pastmhill mé; mhilleasmhill tú; mhillismhill sé, símhilleamar; mhill muidmhill sibh; mhilleabhairmhill siad; mhilleadara mhill /
ar mhill*		milleadh
past habitualmhillinn / millinn‡‡mhillteá / millteᇇmhilleadh sé, sí / milleadh sé, s퇇mhillimis; mhilleadh muid / millimis‡‡; milleadh muid‡‡mhilleadh sibh / milleadh sibh‡‡mhillidís; mhilleadh siad / millidís‡‡; milleadh siad‡‡a mhilleadh /
a milleadh*		mhilltí / millt퇇
futuremillfidh mé;
millfead		millfidh tú;
millfir†		millfidh sé, símillfimid;
millfidh muid		millfidh sibhmillfidh siad;
millfid†		a mhillfidh; a mhillfeas /
a millfidh*; a millfeas*		millfear
conditionalmhillfinn / millfinn‡‡mhillfeá / millfeᇇmhillfeadh sé, sí / millfeadh sé, s퇇mhillfimis; mhillfeadh muid / millfimis‡‡; millfeadh muid‡‡mhillfeadh sibh / millfeadh sibh‡‡mhillfidís; mhillfeadh siad / millfidís‡‡; millfeadh siad‡‡a mhillfeadh /
a millfeadh*		mhillfí / millf퇇
subjunctivepresentgo mille mé;
go millead†		go mille tú;
go millir†		go mille sé, sígo millimid;
go mille muid		go mille sibhgo mille siad;
go millid†		—go milltear
pastdá millinndá millteádá milleadh sé, sídá millimis;
dá milleadh muid		dá milleadh sibhdá millidís;
dá milleadh siad		—dá milltí
imperativemillimmillmilleadh sé, símillimismilligí;
millidh†		millidís—milltear
verbal nounmilleadh
past participlemillte

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Noun

mill f (genitive singular mille, nominative plural milleanna)

  1. Alternative form of meill (“flabby, loose, skin; blubber lip; unshapely mouth”)
  2. (botany) pendant bud or flower
Declension
Declension of mill

Second declension

Bare forms

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativemillmilleanna
Vocativea mhilla mhilleanna
Genitivemillemilleanna
Dativemillmilleanna

Forms with the definite article

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativean mhillna milleanna
Genitivena millena milleanna
Dativeleis an mill

don mhill

leis na milleanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
millmhillnot applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “millid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Entries containing “mill” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “mill” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Manx

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪl/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”). Cognate with Irish mill and Scottish Gaelic mill.

Verb

mill (past vill, future independent millee, verbal noun milley, past participle millit)

  1. destroy, ruin
  2. spoil, tarnish
  3. (as vision) blur
  4. disfigure
  5. corrupt
  6. mess, tumble, rustle
    Ny mill m'olt. ― Don't tumble my hair.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Irish mil, Scottish Gaelic mil, Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to millish and blass.

Noun

mill m (genitive singular molley, plural millyn)

  1. honey

References

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
millvillunchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːʎ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”).

Verb

mill (past mhill, future millidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)

  1. destroy, spoil, ruin

Noun

mill m

  1. inflection of meall:
    1. genitive singular
    2. plural

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
millmhill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “mill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “millid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Wiradhuri

Alternative forms

  • mil

Noun

mill

  1. (anatomy) eye

Yagara

Noun

mill

  1. Alternative form of mil.

References

  • State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.
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