μύλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *mólā, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Doublet of μῠ́λος (mŭ́los). Cognate with Latin mola, English meal, maelstrom.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mý.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.li/
Noun
μῠ́λη • (mŭ́lē) f (genitive μῠ́λης); first declension
- A mill, a hand-mill turned by women.
- A nether millstone.
- A kneepan.
- A hard formation in a woman's womb.
- (in the plural) Molars.
- synonym of μῶλῠ (môlŭ)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μῠ́λη hē mŭ́lē |
τὼ μῠ́λᾱ tṑ mŭ́lā |
αἱ μῠ́λαι hai mŭ́lai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μῠ́λης tês mŭ́lēs |
τοῖν μῠ́λαιν toîn mŭ́lain |
τῶν μῠλῶν tôn mŭlôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μῠ́λῃ tēî mŭ́lēi |
τοῖν μῠ́λαιν toîn mŭ́lain |
ταῖς μῠ́λαις taîs mŭ́lais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μῠ́λην tḕn mŭ́lēn |
τὼ μῠ́λᾱ tṑ mŭ́lā |
τᾱ̀ς μῠ́λᾱς tā̀s mŭ́lās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῠ́λη mŭ́lē |
μῠ́λᾱ mŭ́lā |
μῠ́λαι mŭ́lai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μῠλαῖος (mŭlaîos)
- μῠ́λᾰξ (mŭ́lăx)
- μῠλᾰ́ρῐον (mŭlắrĭon)
- μῠλεργᾰ́της (mŭlergắtēs)
- μῠλεύς (mŭleús)
- μῠληβόρος (mŭlēbóros)
- μῠληθρῐ́ς (mŭlēthrĭ́s)
- μῠλήκορον (mŭlḗkoron)
- μῠλήφᾰτος (mŭlḗphătos)
- μῠλῐ́ᾱς (mŭlĭ́ās)
- μῠλῐᾰ́ω (mŭlĭắō)
- μῠλῐκός (mŭlĭkós)
- μῠ́λῐνος (mŭ́lĭnos)
- μῠ́λλω (mŭ́llō)
- μῠλόδους (mŭlódous)
- μῠλοειδής (mŭloeidḗs)
- μῠλόεις (mŭlóeis)
- μῠλοεργής (mŭloergḗs)
- μῠ́λοικος (mŭ́loikos)
- μῠλοκόπος (mŭlokópos)
- μῠλουργός (mŭlourgós)
- μῠλωθρός (mŭlōthrós)
- μῠλών (mŭlṓn)
- μῠλωνᾰ́ρχης (mŭlōnắrkhēs)
- ῠ̔δρομῠ́λη (hŭdromŭ́lē)
- χειρομῠ́λη (kheiromŭ́lē)
Descendants
- ⇒ New Latin: mylohȳoīdēs, mylohȳoīdeus
- → English: mylohyoid, mylohyoideus
References
- “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μύλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μύλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μύλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- μύλη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- mill idem, page 529.