meal
Gaelic (Scots)
verb
Definitions
- enjoy
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Irish melaim (I enjoy) inherited from Proto-Celtic *mel (soft) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (grind, crush, dark color, rub, mill, beat, break up, black, pound).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*melh₂-
Gloss
grind, crush, dark color, rub, mill, beat, break up, black, pound
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
黒
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mild English
- milden English
- mildish English
- mildly English
- mildness English
- overmild English
- milium Latin
- mola Latin
- molina Latin
- molo Latin
- molīnum Latin
- molō, molere Latin
- mulleus Latin
- μέλας Ancient Greek
- μελίνη Ancient Greek
- μύλη Ancient Greek
- *melh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *mélid Proto-Indo-European
- *malaną Proto-Germanic
- *malmaz Proto-Germanic
- *melwą Proto-Germanic
- *mildijaz Proto-Germanic
- *muldō Proto-Germanic
- *mēlijaną Proto-Germanic
- *stainaz Proto-Germanic
- मल Sanskrit
- milde Middle English
- bláith Irish
- *Mallar Old Norse
- meldr Old Norse
- mjallr Old Norse
- mǫl Old Norse
- *melti Proto-Slavic
- *moltъ Proto-Slavic
- 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉 Gothic
- *mel Proto-Celtic
- *meleti Proto-Celtic
- *meljom Proto-Italic
- *molweyos Proto-Italic
- malnos Lithuanian
- melaim Middle Irish
- *v-mel-neH2 Proto-Albanian
- *melʔ- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- mäl- Tocharian B
- 𒄭 Urartian