mell

• IPA^(key): /mɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English mǣlan (“to speak, talk”), from mǣl (“speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle”) and māl (“suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay”), both from Proto-Germanic *mahlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), alteration of *maþlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to meet, encounter”). Cognate with Scots mele (“to speak, converse, tell”), Danish mæle (“to speak, utter”), Icelandic mæla (“to speak, say”), Old High German mahalōn (“to charge, accuse, proscecute”), German vermählen (“to wed, marry”). More at blackmail.

• mele

mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)

1. (British, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell.

mell

1. (UK dialectal) Discourse; conversation.

From Middle English mellen, medlen, from Old French meller, mesler (“to mix, mingle”). Doublet of meddle.

mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)

1. (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
   • c. 1495, John Skelton, Vppon a deedman's hed:

     For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iulye. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 29, recto:

     Here is a great deale of good matter, / loſt for lacke of telling, / Now ſicker I see, thou doeſt but clatter: / harme may come of melling.

   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 250, column 1:

     And ſay a ſouldier (Dian) told thee this: / Men are to mell with, boyes are not to kis.

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 57:

     “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there.”

From Middle English mel, mell, melle, from Latin mell-, mel.^[1][2] Doublet of mel.

mell (uncountable)

2. (obsolete) Honey.
   • 1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XX.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 86:

     Her ſmyles were ſober, and her lookes were chearfull vnto all: / And ſuch as neither wanton ſeeme, noꝛ waward, mell, noꝛ gall.

mell (uncountable)

1. The last grain cut at harvest; kern

A variant form of maul.

mell (plural mells)

1. (dialectal) A heavy hammer or beetle of metal or wood.
2. (obsolete) A mace or club.
3. (obsolete) A chairman's hammer.

From Proto-Celtic *melsā (“knuckle”); possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel (“limb”).

mell

1. joint

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

• melly (dialectal or archaic)

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mälke. Cognates include Southern Mansi [script needed] (møul), Eastern Mansi мавлын (mavlyn) and Northern Mansi ма̄гыл (māgyl, “breast”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛlː]
• Rhymes: -ɛlː

mell (plural mellek)

1. (anatomy) breast

   Synonyms: (formal or technical) emlő, (literary, also figurative) kebel, (dated, dialectal, or vulgar) csecs, (vulgar) csöcs, (colloquial or slang) cici

2. (anatomy, in certain compounds and phrases) chest

   Synonym: mellkas

3. (anatomy, attributive usage) thoracic

   mellüreg ― thoracic cavity

4. (swimming) ellipsis of mellúszás (“breaststroke”)

• mál – archaic or dialectal variant preserved in toponyms and compounds

• mell in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /mɛll/

From Arabic مَلَّ (malla).

mell (imperfect jmell, verbal noun mella)

1. to abhor, to dislike

From Arabic مَلّ (mall).

mell m

1. blight

From Old Irish meld, from Proto-Celtic *meldos (compare Middle Welsh blyð (“soft”), from the alternative form *mlidos), from Proto-Indo-European *meld- (“tender, mild, soft”) (compare Sanskrit मृदु (mṛdu), Latin mollis, Ancient Greek βλαδύς (bladús, “weak”), Old Church Slavonic младъ (mladŭ, “young”).

• IPA^(key): /mʲel͈/

mell

1. pleasant, delightful

• mellaid (“to beguile”)
  • Irish: meall (“to beguile”)
  • Scottish Gaelic: meall (“to beguile”)

• Irish: meall (“pleasant”)
  • ⇒ Irish: meallach

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 mell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): [mʲel͈]

From Proto-Celtic *mellos (“destruction, confusion”) (compare Tocharian B mäl- (“to wound, damage”) and possibly Latin malus (“bad”).^[1]

mell m

1. (rare, chiefly in glossaries) destruction, confusion

• millid

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 mell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *melsā (“knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“limb, joint”), see also Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos), Transalpine Gaulish placename Melodunum.

mell m

1. ball, sphere
2. round protuberance

• Irish: meall (“ball”)
• Scottish Gaelic: meall (“lump”)

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic مل (mall).

mell (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⴻⵍⵍ)

1. (transitive) to detest, to be repulsed, to dislike
2. (transitive) to be fed up

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Verbal noun: amelli (“weariness”)

From Middle English mellen.

• IPA^(key): /mɛl/

mell

1. to meddle
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Dinna mell wi' it.

     Don't meddle with it.

mell

1. alternative form of mele

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56