# mill
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: mĭl, IPA: /mɪl/
** (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA: [mɪɫ]
** (l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: [mɪo̯], [mɪʊ̯]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪl
* Homophone: mil

### Etymology 1

From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline, moulin, and blin.

#### Noun

mill (plural mills)
* A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
    Hyponym: pepper mill
    Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
* The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
    Hyponyms: flour mill, grist mill; fulling mill, cotton mill; water mill, windmill
    My great-grandfather worked in a mill. He filled the flour sacks and then carried and loaded them.
** 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter XV, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 112:[…] for the Townsfolk will go to thy mill, and grind their corn […] at their own good pleasure; nor can I hinder them, since they are free men.
** 1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection And Insurance Company, page 9:On Sept. 9 a boiler exploded in Hanke's flouring mill, […]
* A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
    a cider mill; a cane mill
* A machine for grinding and polishing.
    a lapidary mill
* A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
    Hypernym: machine tool
    Several machinists were busy operating the lathes, mills, and drill presses on the shop floor.
* A milling cutter used on such a machine.
    Hyponyms: endmill; more at Wikipedia
    After the drilling and tapping operations, we come in with a mill and do some contouring.
* A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
    Hyponyms: paper mill, steel mill
    Once the billet gets through the 56-inch mill, it is ready for reheating.
* The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
    My grandfather worked in a mill. He operated machinery, did maintenance, and drove forklifts.
* (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
    Hyponyms: divorce mill, puppy mill, content mill
    Those shysters selling the purebreds are running quite a mill over there, eh?
* (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
    Hyponyms: diploma mill, accreditation mill, ordination mill; essay mill, paper mill
    Those shysters cranking out the "IT training certificates" are running quite a mill over there, eh?
* (informal) An engine.
    Under the hood is a mill that you and I can't afford — a nitrous-blown hemi with custom heads.
* (informal, archaic) A boxing match or fistfight.
    They were betting big on a great mill, but they didn't realize that the fix was in.
** 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:[…] he is relieved from present responsibility to the Chicken, by the absence of that game head of poultry in the country, training (at Toots's cost) for his great mill with the Larkey Boy.
** 1902 October 1, The Sydney Sportsman, page 5, column 6:The mill lasted four rounds, when giddy little Ettie was declared the victress.
** 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a good mill.
* (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
    Coordinate term: die
* (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
    They pulled me off the main crew and had me digging in the mill.
* (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
    Near-synonym: country
    The geologists were responsible for keeping the work within the mill.
* The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
    Synonym: milling
* (historical) A prison treadmill.
    They kept us in line by threatening to put us on the mill twice as long if we complained.
** 1837, James Williams, A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, page 9:Next morning they put me on the treadmill along with the others: At first, not knowing how to dance it, I cut all my shin with the steps; they did not flog me then — […] They keep on putting her on the mill for a week, and flog her every time […]
* (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
    He spent some time in the mill after that escapade.
* (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
* (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
** 1941, QST, volume 25, numbers 2–6, page 90:In other words, get a mill in your operating position by hook or crook and use it regularly. At the N.C.R. Radio Schools touch typing is taught at the same time code proficiency is advanced.
** 1986, Ham Radio Magazine, volume 19, page 66:You can read it all right, but the pencil seems to be getting a little sluggish — better make a grab for a "mill."

##### Alternative forms

* miln (obsolete)

##### Synonyms

* (plant, building): factory, works

##### Derived terms

* abortion mill
* accreditation mill
* ant mill
* author mill
* ball mill
* Barcombe Mills
* Bardon Mill
* Barker's mill
* bark mill
* blowing mill
* born in a mill
* cat mill
* Chilean mill
* chop mill
* chopping mill
* coffee-mill
* coffee mill
* cog mill
* content mill
* cotton mill
* dark satanic mill
* degree mill
* diploma mill
* edge mill
* Ellicott's Mills
* endmill
* essay mill
* every miller draws water to his own mill
* fanning mill
* feed mill
* flint mill
* flourmill, flour mill
* food mill
* fulling mill
* gastric mill
* gig-mill
* gin mill
* gossip mill
* gossip-mill
* go through the mill
* grist for the mill
* gristmill
* grist mill
* grist to the mill
* hollow post mill
* jar mill
* jill-mill
* kitten mill
* Langley Mill
* lapidary's mill
* lead mill
* light mill
* Little Mill, Littlemill
* Marsh Mills
* Martin Mill
* Medicaid mill
* Millbank
* mill bar
* mill car
* mill cinder
* mill course
* Mill Creek
* mill dam
* mill drill
* Mill End
* miller
* mill fever
* mill head
* Mill Hill
* millhouse
* milling
* mill-leat
* mill moth
* mill pick
* mill-race
* mill race, millrace
* mill rate
* millrun
* mill scale
* Mills Hill
* mill-sixpence
* mill-stone
* millstone
* mill stream
* mill tail
* mill tooth
* Milltown
* mill-wand
* mill wheel, millwheel
* Mississippi Mills
* more sacks on the mill
* more sacks to the mill
* mouse mill
* Nash Mills
* Newmill
* New Mills
* no mill, no meal
* oil mill
* ordination mill
* paper mill
* pebble mill
* pecker mill
* Pen Mill
* pepper mill
* pilger mill
* pill mill
* pin mill
* post mill
* powder mill
* prayer mill
* praying mill
* pug mill
* pulp mill
* puppy mill
* put through the mill
* raw mill
* Rhea's Mill
* rice mill
* rice-mill
* Riding Mill
* Ridings Mill
* roller mill
* rolling mill
* roll mill
* roughing mill
* rum mill
* rumor mill, rumour mill
* run of the mill
* run-of-the-mill
* run-o'-the-mill
* run o' the mill
* satanic mill
* Sea Mills
* shaving mill
* Slitting Mill (village)
* slitting mill (mill)
* slitting mill
* smock mill
* spider mill
* stacks on the mill
* stamping mill
* stamp mill
* steel mill
* Stone Mills
* sugar mill
* sugar-mill
* Temple Mills
* the mill cannot grind with water that is past
* through the mill
* tidal mill
* tide mill
* Tide Mills
* trouble at mill
* trouble at the mill
* trouble at t'mill
* tumbling mill
* Union Mills
* walk-mill
* watermill
* water to one's mill
* Weston Mill
* windmill
* wind-mill
* wind mill
* wip mill
* Woodhouse Mill
* Algoma Mills
* Allan Mills
* Anten Mills
* Armstrong Mills
* Ashby Mills
* Balmoral Mills
* Batemans Mills
* Bay du Vin Mills
* Bellamys Mill
* Bells Mills
* Berry Mills
* Birge Mills
* Brewers Mills
* Cails Mills
* Caledonia Mills
* Camerons Mill
* Cedar Mills
* Coates Mills
* Conns Mills
* Conquerall Mills
* Cooks Mills
* Dalhousie Mills
* Davis Mill
* Davis Mills
* Dawn Mills
* Densmore Mills
* Don Mills
* Eden Mills
* Edys Mills
* Erin Mills
* Feir Mill
* Fords Mills
* Fowlies Mill
* Frasers Mills
* German Mills
* Goodwin Mill
* Grays Mills
* Grey Mills
* Halls Mills
* Hampshire Mills
* Harmony Mills
* Harrison Mills
* Hempstock Mill
* Herron's Mills
* Horning's Mills
* Imperial Mills
* Jewetts Mills
* Killams Mills
* La Rue Mills
* Links Mills
* Liscomb Mills
* Lockharts Mill
* Longford Mills
* Lords Mills
* Lueck Mill
* MacIntosh Mill
* Mavis Mills
* McKees Mills
* McPhersons Mills
* Mill Cove
* Mill Creek
* Mill Road
* Mill Settlement
* Mill Village
* Mississippi Mills
* Moiles Mills
* Mono Mills
* National Mills
* New Mills
* Newton Mills
* Old Mill
* Oxford Mills
* Pelletiers Mill
* Peters Mills
* Rock Mills
* Sheffield Mills
* Steeves Mills
* Stone Mills
* Tay Mills
* Teeds Mills
* Tracey Mills
* Vernon Mills
* Whites Mills
* Wiggins Mill
* Yonge Mills
* York Mills
* Adams Mills
* Advance Mills
* Allens Mills
* Anthonies Mill
* Armstrongs Mills
* Arnco Mills
* Arnold Mill
* Atkinson Mills
* Austins Mill
* Aylett Mill
* Baileys Mills
* Baldwins Mill
* Balls Mills
* Banner Mills
* Barre Mills
* Barrs Mills
* Bay Mills
* Beards Mill
* Beaver Mills
* Becks Mill
* Bells Mills
* Belvidere Mills
* Bennetts Mill
* Blackiston Mill
* Blairs Mills
* Blodget Mills
* Blue Mills
* Bonenyville Mills
* Bonnots Mill
* Bowens Mill
* Bowers Mill
* Boylers Mill
* Brooks Mill
* Browns Mill
* Buffalo Mills
* Bumpus Mills
* Burlington Mills
* Burnt Mills
* Byrnes Mill
* Cagle Mill
* Caplinger Mills
* Carpenter's Mill
* Carrier Mills
* Cedar Mills
* Charter Oak Mills
* Clark Mills
* Clarks Mills
* Coles Mills
* Cones Mills
* Cooks Mills
* Coopers Mills
* Crockett Mills
* Cruise Mill
* Cuba Mills
* Deer's Mill
* Delhi Mills
* Detters Mill
* Dixons Mills
* Doolittle Mills
* Duncan Mills
* Dunn Mill
* Dutch Mills
* Eagle Mills
* Eakles Mills
* Eden Mills
* Edna Mills
* Ednas Mill
* Egypt Mills
* Eldridge Mill
* Electric Mills
* Elk Mills
* Ellicott's Mills
* Etna Mills
* Eureka Mill
* Evans Mills
* Falls Mills
* Felts Mills
* Fickling Mill
* Fine Creek Mills
* Fletcher Mill
* Forest Mills
* Fort Kent Mills
* Foster Mills
* French Mills
* Fuhrmans Mill
* Gang Mills
* Garretts Mill
* Gates Mills
* Gayle Mill
* Gays Mills
* Georges Mill
* Georges Mills
* Gilmore Mills
* Glebe Mills
* Glen Mills
* Goods Mill
* Gravois Mills
* Great Mills
* Greenfield Mills
* Guinea Mills
* Gulph Mills
* Guys Mills
* Hahns Mill
* Hannahs Mill
* Harrison Mills
* Hasslers Mill
* Heath Mills
* Henrys Mill
* Holmes Mill
* Hood's Mill
* Hoopers Mill
* Hoover Mill
* Hope Mills
* Hopewell Mill
* Howell Mills
* Howes Mill
* Hudson Mills
* Huntington Mills
* Hurdle Mills
* Hurricane Mills
* Inman Mills
* Jasper Mills
* Jersey Mills
* Jones Mill
* Kemp Mill
* Kemps Mill
* Kings Mills
* Klines Mill
* Knox Mills
* Kremlin Mill
* Kyles Mills
* Lake Mill
* Lake Mills
* Lancaster Mill
* Lanes Mills
* Laniers Mill
* Laurel Mill
* Laurel Mills
* Lawthorne Mill
* Lecontes Mills
* Lees Mill
* Levick Mill
* Lewis Mill
* Liberty Mills
* Lillard Mill
* Linton Mills
* Loddes Mill
* London Mills
* Lusby's Mill
* Lusks Mills
* Luthers Mills
* Madison Mills
* Maples Mill
* Marion Mills
* Marquand Mills
* Marstons Mills
* Martin's Mills
* Massies Mill
* McDonalds Mill
* McGees Mills
* Meyers Mill
* Midway Mills
* Milford Mill
* Milford Mills
* Mill Bridge
* Mill Creek
* Mill Neck
* Mill Spring
* Milton Mills
* Monarch Mill
* Monroe Mills
* Moores Mill
* Morse Mill
* Moscow Mills
* Moshers Mill
* Motleys Mill
* Mountain Mills
* Muses Mills
* Nevada Mills
* New York Mills
* Noser Mill
* Oakland Mills
* Old Mill Creek
* Orange Mill
* Osage Mills
* Osceola Mills
* Owings Mills
* Oxford Mills
* Parkins Mills
* Patten Mills
* Peola Mills
* Pine Grove Mills
* Pleasant Mills
* Pond Creek Mills
* Porter's Mills
* Portland Mills
* Post Mills
* Potomac Mills
* Potters Mills
* Pounding Mill
* Prices Mill
* Pulleys Mill
* Putneys Mill
* Redings Mill
* Red Oaks Mill
* Reeds Mill
* Reedy Mill
* Reifs Mills
* Repton Mills
* Ridings Mill
* Rinard Mills
* Rix Mills
* Rochester Mills
* Rock Mills
* Rolands Mill
* Roses Mill
* Ruddels Mills
* Salisbury Mills
* Scarlets Mill
* Schechs Mill
* Scioto Mills
* Scotts Mill
* Shack Mills
* Shelors Mill
* Sheppards Mill
* Shirley Mills
* Sirons Mill
* Slate Mills
* Smith Mills
* Smiths Mill
* Smyrna Mills
* Sni Mills
* Solon Mills
* South Mills
* Sprankle Mills
* Spring Mill
* Spring Mills
* Star Mill
* Star Mills
* Starrs Mill
* Steam Mill
* Stone Quarry Mills
* Stony Creek Mills
* Stony Mill
* Strodes Mills
* Summit Mills
* Tacketts Mill
* Taylor Mill
* Tisch Mills
* Todds Mill
* Travis Mill
* Trenton Mills
* Trents Mill
* Troy Mills
* Tunis Mills
* Turners Mill
* Twymans Mill
* Union Mill
* Union Mills
* Vales Mills
* Walker Mill
* Wallace Mills
* Walthall Mill
* Washington Mills
* Waterford Mills
* Water Mill
* Watts Mills
* Weston Mills
* White Mills
* Wilson's Mills
* Winnsboro Mills
* Withers Mill
* Woodland Mills
* Woods Mill
* Wye Mills
* Wynns Mill
* Yancey Mills
* Yancy Mills
* Yeakle Mill

##### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: miri
* → Hindi: मिल (mil)

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)
* (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
    to mill flour
* (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
* (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
* (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
    I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
** 1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, while the Eaters of Flesh skirmished round its edge.
** 2021 July 8, Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:As guests milled around them, he [Zuckerberg] described his goal of turning every person in the country with an internet connection into a Facebook user.
* (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
    to mill cattle
* (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
* (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
* (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
** 1888, Rudyard Kipling, The Madness of Private Ortheris:Ortheris said nothing for a while. Then he unslung his belt, heavy with the badges of half a dozen regiments that his own had lain with, and handed it over to Mulvaney. "I'm too little for to mill you, Mulvaney," said he, "an' you've strook me before; but you can take an' cut me in two with this 'ere if you like."
** 1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC:[…] he had “milled” a policeman
* To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
* (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
* (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
* (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
    This maize mills well.
* (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
* (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
* (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
** 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton‎, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
** 1818, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in The Heart of Midlothian:And why not?—You would think little of peaching and hanging him for this Scotch affair.—Rat me, one might have milled the Bank of England, and less noise about it.

##### Synonyms

* (move about in an aimless fashion): roam, wander

##### Derived terms

* free-milling
* millable
* mill about
* mill around
* nonmilled
* unmilled

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clipping comes by way of the clipped word, millimetre.

#### Noun

mill (plural mills)
* One thousandth part.
** One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
    Alternative form: mille
    Holonyms: cent < dollar
    The U.S. has never minted a mill coin, but the Coinage Act of 1792 describes this and other subdivisions of the U.S. dollar.
** One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
    They predict that the rate will probably go up by several mills next year.
** (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
    Synonym: thou
    For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mills thick.
** (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
    Alternative form: mil
    Synonym: mm
    For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mills in diameter.

##### Derived terms

* millage
* per mill
* permille

##### Translations
#### See also

* basis point
* bp
* percent

### Etymology 3

Clipping of million.

#### Noun

mill (plural mill)
* (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”)

### Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

mill (plural mills)
* A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

### Etymology 5

Back-formation from millstone, name of a Magic: The Gathering card with this effect (first printed 1994).

#### Alternative forms

* Mill (in the sense of "a strategy")

#### Verb

mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)
* (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
* (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
** 2018 October 9, Ozzie Mejia, “Hearthstone: 4 decks to watch during the 2018 HCT Fall Championship”, in Shacknews‎:what happens when a Quest Rogue uses Vanish and Malygos gets milled?

##### Synonyms

* (Hearthstone): burn

##### Derived terms

* self-mill

#### Noun

mill (countable and uncountable, plural mills)
* (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
** 2018 October 14, Jay Castello, “Pro Hearthstone player burns key card with perfect comedic timing”, in Rock Paper Shotgun‎:he’s had some fairly infamous mills in other events. Back in 2017’s Spring Championships, he burned the crucial Archmage Antonidas
* (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
** 2018 June 16, Wavelength, “Efficient Off-Meta Decks Spotlight”, in Fade2Karma‎, archived from the original on 28 November 2021:Kingsane Rogue will forever have a negative connotation attached to it because it began as a mill deck, and mill is one of the most tilt-inducing strategies in fantasy card games.
** 2018 September 24, Collin MacGregor, “Top 10 Guilds of Ravnica Commander Cards in Magic The Gathering”, in heavy.‎:Great for mill, control, or even Voltron decks, Mnemonic Betrayal is a fantastic addition regardless of your strategy.

##### Derived terms

* Mill Rogue

##### Translations
### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mill”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “mill”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* 1 2 Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, pages 78–79

### Further reading

* mill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Mill in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

## Albanian
### Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Albanian *meila (“fastening (of a knife)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to attach, fasten”).

### Noun

mill m (plural mille, definite milli, definite plural millet)
* sheath

#### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mill”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 266

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin milium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmiʎ]
* Rhymes: -iʎ

### Noun

mill m (plural mills)
* millet

#### Derived terms

* mill africà
* mill del sol

### Further reading

* “mill” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mill”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “mill” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mill” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mʲiːlʲ], [mʲɪlʲ]

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”).

#### Verb

mill (present analytic milleann, future analytic millfidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)
* (ambitransitive) spoil; mar, ruin
** ravish

##### Conjugation

| verbal noun | milleadh | milleadh | milleadh | milleadh | milleadh | milleadh | milleadh | milleadh |
| past participle | millte | millte | millte | millte | millte | millte | millte | millte |
| tense | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | relative | autonomous |
| tense | first | second | third | first | second | third | relative | autonomous |
| indicative |||||||||
| present | millim | milleann tú; millir$^†$ | milleann sé, sí | millimid | milleann sibh | milleann siad; millid$^†$ | a mhilleann; a mhilleas / a milleann* | milltear |
| past | mhill mé; mhilleas | mhill tú; mhillis | mhill sé, sí | mhilleamar; mhill muid | mhill sibh; mhilleabhair | mhill siad; mhilleadar | a mhill / ar mhill* | milleadh |
| past habitual | mhillinn / millinn‡‡ | mhillteá / millteá‡‡ | mhilleadh sé, sí / milleadh sé, sí‡‡ | mhillimis; mhilleadh muid / millimis‡‡; milleadh muid‡‡ | mhilleadh sibh / milleadh sibh‡‡ | mhillidís; mhilleadh siad / millidís‡‡; milleadh siad‡‡ | a mhilleadh / a milleadh* | mhilltí / milltí‡‡ |
| future | millfidh mé; millfead | millfidh tú; millfir$^†$ | millfidh sé, sí | millfimid; millfidh muid | millfidh sibh | millfidh siad; millfid$^†$ | a mhillfidh; a mhillfeas / a millfidh* | millfear |
| conditional | mhillfinn / millfinn‡‡ | mhillfeá / millfeá‡‡ | mhillfeadh sé, sí / millfeadh sé, sí‡‡ | mhillfimis; mhillfeadh muid / millfimis‡‡; millfeadh muid‡‡ | mhillfeadh sibh / millfeadh sibh‡‡ | mhillfidís; mhillfeadh siad / millfidís‡‡; millfeadh siad‡‡ | a mhillfeadh / a millfeadh* | mhillfí / millfí‡‡ |
| subjunctive |||||||||
| present | go mille mé; go millead$^†$ | go mille tú; go millir$^†$ | go mille sé, sí | go millimid; go mille muid | go mille sibh | go mille siad; go millid$^†$ | — | go milltear |
| past | dá millinn | dá millteá | dá milleadh sé, sí | dá millimis; dá milleadh muid | dá milleadh sibh | dá millidís; dá milleadh siad | — | dá milltí |
| imperative |||||||||
| – | millim | mill | milleadh sé, sí | millimis | milligí; millidh$^†$ | millidís | — | milltear |
* indirect relative † archaic or dialect form ‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mill f (genitive singular mille, nominative plural milleanna)
* Alternative form of meill (“flabby, loose, skin; blubber lip; unshapely mouth”)
* (botany) pendant bud or flower

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
mill
milleanna
vocative
a mhill
a mhilleanna
genitive
mille
milleanna
dative
mill
milleanna
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an mhill
na milleanna
genitive
na mille
na milleanna
dative
leis an mill don mhill
leis na milleanna :

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “millid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mill”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “mill”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Manx
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /milʲ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”). Cognate with Irish mill and Scottish Gaelic mill.

#### Verb

mill (past vill, future independent millee, verbal noun milley, past participle millit)
* destroy, ruin
* spoil, tarnish
* (as vision) blur
* disfigure
* corrupt
* mess, tumble, rustle
    Ny mill m'olt. ― Don't tumble my hair.

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Irish mil, Scottish Gaelic mil, Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to millish and blass.

#### Noun

mill f (genitive singular molley)
* honey

### References

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

### Mutation

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

## Scottish Gaelic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːʎ/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”).

#### Verb

mill (past mhill, future millidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)
* destroy, spoil, ruin

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mill m
* inflection of meall:
** genitive singular
** plural

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “mill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “millid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Wiradjuri
### Alternative forms

* mil

### Noun

mill
* (anatomy) eye

## Yagara
### Noun

mill
* Alternative form of mil.

### References

* State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.