mel- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	mel-
DEFINITION:	Also mel-. To crush, grind; with derivatives referring to various ground or crumbling substances (such as flour) and to instruments for grinding or crushing (such as millstones). Oldest form mel₂-.1. O-grade form mol-. maelstrom, from Middle Dutch malen, to whirl, from Germanic mal-. 2. Full-grade form mel-. meal¹, from Old English melu, flour, meal, from Germanic suffixed form mel-wa-. 3. Zero-grade form m-. mold³, molder, from Old English molde, soil, from Germanic suffixed form mul-d. 4. Full-grade form mel-. a. meunière, mill¹, mola², molar², mole⁴, moulin; emolument, immolate, ormolu, from Latin molere, to grind (grain), and its derivative mola, a millstone, mill, coarse meal customarily sprinkled on sacrificial animals; b. possible suffixed form mel-iyo-. mealie, miliary, milium, millet; gromwell, from Latin milium,* millet. 5. Suffixed variant form mal-ni-. malleable, malleolus, mallet, malleus, maul; pall-mall, from Latin malleus,* hammer, mallet. 6. Zero-grade form m-. amylum, mylonite, from Greek mul,* mulos, millstone, mill. 7. Possibly extended form ml-. blini, blintz, from Old Russian blin,* pancake. (Pokorny 1. mel- 716.)


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