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milwelln.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French meluel, moluel, moruel. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman meluel, meluelle, meluwel, mulewell, muluel, muluwelle (c1140) and Old French moluel (1036 in a 16th cent. copy), probably an altered form of moruel cod (see morhwell n.). Compare post-classical Latin melewellus (c1376), miluuellus (c1100), milvellus (1329), milwellus (1419), mulewellus (1232), muluwellus (1234), mulvellus (c1191), mulwellus (c1200), in British sources. Now chiefly English regional ( northern) and historical. the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > genus Gadus > gadus morhua (common cod) 1228 in N. S. B. Gras (1918) 156 (MED) c de milvel, ii d. 1338 in W. Dugdale (1819) II. 584/1 In codelyngis et haddockis emptis iijs vjd... In green mulvellis xvd. c1340 in J. T. Fowler (1898) I. 36 In xx Milueles salsis, viij s. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 423 Euery fysshe one eyed is; So fareþ as wel in Albania þe Milewel [v.r. Meluel; ?a1475 anon. tr. Mulwelle]. a1450 in T. Austin (1888) 43 (MED) Nym Milwel or lenge þat is wel ywateryd. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in (2002) i. 154 Salt samoun, Congur, grone fische, boþe lynge & myllewelle. a1544 R. Barlow tr. M. Fernández de Enciso (1932) 149 Ther is another sort of fysshes called bonytas, and be as bigge as a smal milwell. 1577 J. Dee 24 For his Majesty to be Souerayn Lord of the Fishing of Myllwyn and Codd, there [i.e. in Ireland]. 1603 G. Owen (1892) 123 Myllwell otherwise called codde. 1661 R. Lovell 232 Cod fish..is a great Sea-whiting, called also a Keeling or Melwel. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in 33 Milwyn; Lancash. Greenfish. 1695 W. Kennett Gloss. Myllewell, a sort of fish, the same with what is now in Lancashire is called Milwyn, which Spelman renders green fish, but it was certainly of a different kind. 1755 S. Johnson Melwel, a kind of fish. 1790 F. Grose (ed. 2) Milwyn, greenfish. Lanc. 1903 IV. 114/1 The greenfish, Labrus lineatus, or the milwel, Conger vulgaris. 1973 C. A. Wilson ii. 35 The term ‘stockfish’ was applied to several members of the cod family, such as pollack, scalpin (whiting) and milwell; and was given to salt fish as well as to that which was wind cured without salt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1228 |