# meel
## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch meel, from Middle Dutch mēle, Old Dutch *melo, Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: meel

### Noun

meel (uncountable)
* flour

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch mēle, Old Dutch *melo, Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: meel
* Rhymes: -eːl
* Homophone: mail

### Noun

meel n (uncountable)
* flour, meal, farina

#### Derived terms

* bakmeel
* glutenmeel
* griesmeel
* meeldeeg
* meeldraad
* meelworm
* meelzak
* roggemeel
* stuifmeel
* tarwemeel
* volkorenmeel
* zetmeel

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: meel
* Berbice Creole Dutch: meli
* Negerhollands: meel, mil
* → Lokono: meli

### Further reading

* “meel” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

### Anagrams

* leem

## Estonian
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *meeli, From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mäľ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeːl/, [ˈmeːl]
* Hyphenation: meel

#### Noun

meel (genitive meele, partitive meelt)
* sense
    Viis meelt.The five senses.
* emotion, feeling
    Mul on hea meel, et ma sinuga kohtusin.I'm glad that I met you. (lit. "I have a good feeling that I met you")
* opinion, idea
    Me oleme samal meelel.We have the same opinion.
* (generally with järgi, järele) wish, desire
    See asi pole mulle meele järgi.This thing isn't to my desire. (i.e "I don't like this")
* (mostly in the locative cases) memory
    Mulle ei jää asjad meelde.I don't remember things. (lit. "Things don't stay into my memory.")
    Mul läks meelest ära.I forgot. (lit. "It went from my memory")
* (colloquial) mind, intelligence, smarts
    Viin võtab meele meeste peast.Vodka takes the mind out of men.

##### Usage notes

All senses except for "sense" and "mind" are mostly used in a large number of various fixed phrases.

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeːl/, [ˈmeːl]
* Hyphenation: meel

#### Noun

meel
* adessive singular of mesi

### Further reading

* “meel”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
* “meel”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “meel”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* meel in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Ingrian
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈmeːl/, [ˈmeːlʲ]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈmeːl/, [ˈme̝ːl]
* Rhymes: -eːl
* Hyphenation: meel

#### Noun

meel
* Alternative form of meeli

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈme.elːæ/, [ˈme̞.e̞lʲː]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈme.el/, [ˈme̞.e̞l]
* Rhymes: -e.elː, -e.el
* Hyphenation: me‧el

#### Noun

meel
* adessive singular of mesi

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 308
* Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 63

## Somali
### Noun

meel ?
* place