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melə-
Also mel-.
To crush, grind; with derivatives referring to various ground or crumbling substances (such as flour) and to instruments for grinding or crushing (such as millstones). Oldest form *melh2‑.- O-grade form *mol‑. maelstrom, from Middle Dutch malen, to whirl, from Germanic *mal‑.
- Full-grade form *mel‑. meal1, from Old English melu, flour, meal, from Germanic suffixed form *mel-wa‑.
- Zero-grade form *ml̥‑. mold3, molder, from Old English molde, soil, from Germanic suffixed form *mul-dō.
- Full-grade form *mel‑.
- meunière, mill1, mola2, molar2, mole4, moulin; emolument, immolate, ormolu, from Latin molere, to grind (grain), and its derivative mola, a millstone, mill, coarse meal customarily sprinkled on sacrificial animals;
- possible suffixed form *mel-iyo‑. mealie, miliary, milium, millet; gromwell, from Latin milium, millet.
- Suffixed variant form *mal-ni‑. malleable, malleolus, mallet, malleus, maul; pall-mall, from Latin malleus, hammer, mallet.
- Zero-grade form *ml̥‑. amylum, mylonite, from Greek mulē, mulos, millstone, mill.
- Possibly extended form *mlī‑. blini, blintz, from Old Russian blinŭ, pancake.
[Pokorny 1. mel‑ 716.] |
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