# mell
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛl

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Alternative forms

* mele

#### Verb

mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)
* (British, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell.

#### Noun

mell
* (UK dialectal) Discourse; conversation.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

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

### Etymology 3

From Middle English mel, mell, melle, from Latin mell-, mel. Doublet of mel.

#### Noun

mell (uncountable)
* (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.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

mell (uncountable)
* The last grain cut at harvest; kern

### See also

* mell of a hess
* pell-mell

### References

* ↑ “mell, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “mel, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Breton
### Etymology

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

### Noun

mell
* joint

### References

* 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

## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* melly (dialectal or archaic)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛlː]
* Rhymes: -ɛlː

### Noun

mell (plural mellek)
* (anatomy) breast
    Synonyms: (formal or technical) emlő, (literary, also figurative) kebel, (dated, dialectal, or vulgar) csecs, (vulgar) csöcs, (colloquial or slang) cici
* (anatomy, in certain compounds and phrases) chest
    Synonym: mellkas
* (anatomy, attributive usage) thoracic
    mellüreg ― thoracic cavity
* (swimming) Ellipsis of mellúszás (“breaststroke”).

#### Derived terms

* mellesleg
* mellett
* mellék
* mellény
* mellső
* mellű
* mellbimbó
* mellbőség
* mellcsont
* mellhártya
* mellkas
* mellszobor
* melltartó
* mellúszás
* mellüreg
* mellvezeték
* mellbe vág
* mellre szív
* veri a mellét

### Further reading

* mell in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Maltese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛll/

### Etymology 1

From Arabic مَلَّ (malla).

#### Verb

mell (imperfect jmell, verbal noun mella)
* to abhor, to dislike

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic مَلّ (mall).

#### Noun

mell m
* blight

## Middle Irish
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mʲel͈/

### Adjective

mell
* pleasant, delightful

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

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

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

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

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mʲel͈]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

mell m
* (rare, chiefly in glossaries) destruction, confusion

##### Derived terms

* millid

#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mell m
* ball, sphere
* round protuberance

##### Declension

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

##### Descendants

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

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mello-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 262

## Tarifit
### Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic مل (mall).

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Verb

mell (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⴻⵍⵍ)
* (transitive) to detest, to be repulsed, to dislike
* (transitive) to be fed up

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* Verbal noun: amelli (“weariness”)

## Yola
### Etymology 1

From Middle English mellen.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛl/

#### Verb

mell
* to meddle
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Dinna mell wi' it.Don't meddle with it.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mell
* Alternative form of mele

### References

* 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