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This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin molīna, variant of molīnum (“mill”).
Noun
*mulīnu f[1]
- mill
Inflection
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Singular
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| Nominative
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*mulīnu
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| Genitive
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*mulīnā
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*mulīnu
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*mulīnō
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| Accusative
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*mulīnā
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*mulīnā
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| Genitive
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*mulīnā
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*mulīnō
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| Dative
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*mulīnē
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*mulīnōm, *mulīnum
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| Instrumental
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*mulīnu
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*mulīnōm, *mulīnum
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Alternative reconstructions
Descendants
- Old English: mylen, myln
- Middle English: mylne, mele, melle, mille, miln, milne, myle, mylene, mylle, myln, molle, mule, mulle, mulne (Southern)
- Old Frisian: *melene, *melne
- Old Saxon: *mulina
- Middle Low German: möle, mölne
- → Old Norse: mylna
- Old Dutch: molna
- Middle Dutch: mōlen
- → Old Frisian: molne, mole
- Old High German: mulīn, mulī
- Middle High German: mül, müle
- Alemannic German: Müli
- Bavarian:
- Cimbrian: müul
- Mòcheno: mil
- Central Franconian: Möhl
- German: Mühle
- Pennsylvania German: Miehl
- Yiddish: מיל (mil)
- → Proto-Slavic: *mъlinъ (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Miller, D. Gary (13 June 2012) “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4.5, page 72: “WGmc. *mulīn-”.