melu

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛlu]

melu

1. first-person singular present of mlít

Onomatopoeic.^[1] Related to Estonian mõlu, mõlisema and Karelian melu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelu/, [ˈme̞lu]
• Rhymes: -elu
• Syllabification^(key): me‧lu
• Hyphenation^(key): me‧lu

melu

1. noise, racket (various sounds, usually unwanted and loud)

• möly

• “melu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• lemu, lume

melu m

1. genitive plural of meli

• melo, meolo

From Proto-Germanic *melwą, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“grind”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.lu/

melu n

1. flour
2. meal, the edible part of a grain or pulse
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Him becōmon ēac swā miċele welan tō handa, þæt his bīġleofa wæs ælċe dæġ mid his hīrede þrittiġ mittan clǣnes melowes, and sixtiġ mittan ōðres melowes, twelf fǣtte oxan, and twēntiġ feldoxan, hundtēontiġ weðera, buton huntoðe and fugoloðe and ġemæstra fugela.

     And so much wealth came into his hands that every day he and his household consumed thirty mittas of clean meal, sixty mittas of other meal, twelve fat oxen, twenty field-oxen, and one hundred wethers, not counting the sustenance from hunting, fowling, or fattened birds.

Strong wa-stem:

• Middle English: mele, meale, meele, melow
  • English: meal
  • Scots: meil, mele
  • Yola: mele, mell