*meldǭ

Runic: ᛗᛖᛚᛞᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈmel.dɔ̃ː/

noun · feminine · ōn-stem

Meanings

a plant of the genus Chenopodium, goosefoot
a plant of the genus Atriplex, orache, saltbush

Etymology

Put to Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- because of the mealy texture of its leaves. Compare the meaning range of the descendants of Old Norse mjǫll which is from the same root, Icelandic mjöll (‘fresh snow’), Norwegian mjell, mjøll (‘light, dry snow’), Swedish mjäll (‘dandruff’), Danish mæld, mjæld (‘fluff on corollae’). But note Proto-Slavic *lebeda of the same meaning range, and also Ancient Greek βλίτον (blíton) (blíton, ‘purple amaranth; orache’); both are of unknown origin.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	meldǭ	meldōniz
Acc.	meldōnų	meldōnunz
Gen.	meldōniz	meldōnǫ̂
Dat.	meldōni	meldōmaz
Inst.	meldōnē	meldōmiz
Voc.	meldǭ	meldōniz

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Descendants

*meldā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *melda (Old Dutch)
  - melde (Middle Dutch)
    - melde, milde (Dutch)
*meldā (Proto-West Germanic)
- melde (Old English)
  - mielde (Middle English)
    - milds, miles, myles (English)
    - milds, miles, myles (Scots)
*meldā (Proto-West Germanic)
- melta, melda, malta, multa (Old High German)
  - melta (Medieval Latin)
*meldā (Proto-West Germanic)
- melta, melda, malta, multa (Old High German)
  - melte, melde (Middle High German)
    - Melde, Melte, Melle, Malde, Malte, Milte, Milde, Molde, Mölde (German)
*meldā (Proto-West Germanic)
- maldia (Old Saxon)
  - melde (Middle Low German)
*mjaldi (Old Norse)
- melde (Norwegian Bokmål)
- melde (Norwegian Nynorsk)
*mjaldi (Old Norse)
- melde, meld (Old Danish)
  - mælde, mæld (Danish)
*mjaldi (Old Norse)
- molda, molla, mœld, mœldyrt (Old Swedish)
  - målla, mäll, mäld, mäldyrt (Swedish)
*malcca (Proto-Finnic)

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