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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/meldǭ
Proto-Germanic
Alternative forms
- *muldǭ[1]
Etymology
Put to Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- because of the mealy texture of its leaves. Compare the meaning range of the descendants of Old Norse mjǫll which is from the same root, Icelandic mjöll (“fresh snow”), Norwegian mjell, mjøll (“light, dry snow”), Swedish mjäll (“dandruff”), Danish mæld, mjæld (“fluff on corollae”). But note Proto-Slavic *lebeda of the same meaning range, and also Ancient Greek βλίτον (blíton, “purple amaranth; orache”); both are of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmel.dɔ̃ː/
Noun
*meldǭ f
- a plant of the genus Chenopodium, goosefoot
- a plant of the genus Atriplex, orache, saltbush
Inflection
ōn-stemDeclension of *meldǭ (ōn-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *meldǭ | *meldōniz | |
vocative | *meldǭ | *meldōniz | |
accusative | *meldōnų | *meldōnunz | |
genitive | *meldōniz | *meldōnǫ̂ | |
dative | *meldōni | *meldōmaz | |
instrumental | *meldōnē | *meldōmiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *meldā
- Old English: melde
- Middle English: mielde
- Scots: milds, miles, myles
- English: milds, miles, myles (dialectal Northern English)
- Middle English: mielde
- Old Dutch: *melda
- Middle Dutch: melde
- Dutch: melde, milde
- Middle Dutch: melde
- Old Saxon: maldia
- Middle Low German: melde
- Old High German: melta, melda, malta, multa
- Middle High German: melte, melde
- German: Melde, Melte, Melle, Malde, Malte, Milte, Milde, Molde, Mölde
- → Medieval Latin: melta
- Middle High German: melte, melde
- Old English: melde
- Old Norse: *mjaldi
- Old Danish: melde, meld
- Danish: mælde, mæld
- Norwegian Bokmål: melde
- Norwegian Nynorsk: melde
- Old Swedish: molda, molla, mœld, mœldyrt
- Swedish: målla, mäll, mäld, mäldyrt
- Old Danish: melde, meld
- → Proto-Finnic: *malcca (see there for further descendants)
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*mulđōn II”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 275
Further reading
- “Melde” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “myles”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, OCLC 57069714.
- Björkman, Erik (1902), “Die Pflanzennamen der althochdeutschen Glossen”, in Zeitschrift für deutsche Sprache, volume 2, Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 223
- Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “*meldō-, *meldōn”, in Germanisches Wörterbuch, 5th edition
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*melđōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 266
- Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Melde”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN