*melwą

Runic: ᛗᛖᛚᚹᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈmel.wɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

ground corn, meal, flour

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-wo-m, from *melh₂- (‘to beat; crush; grind’); by synchronic analysis, a wa-stem nominal formation from *malaną (‘to grind’). Cognate with Latin molō.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	melwą	melwō
Acc.	melwą	melwō
Gen.	melwas, milwis	melwǫ̂
Dat.	melwai	melwamaz
Inst.	melwō	melwamiz
Voc.	melwą	melwō

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Descendants

*melu (Proto-West Germanic)
- *melo (Old Dutch)
  - mēle, meel (Middle Dutch)
    - mael (Limburgish)
*melu (Proto-West Germanic)
- *melo (Old Dutch)
  - mēle, meel (Middle Dutch)
    - meel (Dutch)
      - meel (Afrikaans)
      - meli (Berbice Creole Dutch)
      - meli (Lokono)
      - meel, mil (Negerhollands)
*melu (Proto-West Germanic)
- melu, meolu, melo, meolo (Old English)
  - mele, meale, meele, melow (Middle English)
    - meal (English)
    - meil, mele (Scots)
    - mele, mell (Yola)
*melu (Proto-West Germanic)
- mele (Old Frisian)
  - meel, mal (North Frisian)
  - Meel (Saterland Frisian)
  - moal (West Frisian)
*melu (Proto-West Germanic)
- melo (Old High German)
  - mël (Middle High German)
    - Mël, Mèhl (Alemannic German)
    - Mej, Möö (Bavarian)
    - ? (Central Franconian)
    - Mehl (German)
    - ? (Rhine Franconian)
    - maoł (Vilamovian)
    - מעל (mel) (Yiddish)
*melu (Proto-West Germanic)
- melo (Old Saxon)
  - mēle, mel (Middle Low German)
    - mael (Dutch Low Saxon)
    - Mehl (German Low German)
mjǫl (Old Norse)
- mjøl (Faroese)
- mjöl (Icelandic)
mjǫl (Old Norse)
- mjøl (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  - mjøl (Norwegian Bokmål)
mjǫl (Old Norse)
- miel, miøl, miæl, mial, mel (Old Danish)
  - mel (Danish)
    - mel (Norwegian Bokmål)
mjǫl (Old Norse)
- miol, miøl, møl (Old Swedish)
  - mjöl (Swedish)

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