μέλι
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- honey
- anything sweet
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (honey).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mélit
Gloss
honey
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
蜜
Emoji
🍯
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Melissa English
- melidectes English
- oenomel English
- omphacomel English
- trimellic acid English
- *melem Latin
- Melidectes Latin
- marmelos Latin
- mel Latin
- meliphaga Latin
- melissa Latin
- mellaceum Latin
- melleus Latin
- mellifer Latin
- mellifex Latin
- mellificus Latin
- melliger Latin
- mello Latin
- mellāceus Latin
- tractomelitus Latin
- melaza Spanish, Castilian
- miel Spanish, Castilian
- θάλασσα Ancient Greek
- θαλασσόμελι Ancient Greek
- κεράννῡμι Ancient Greek
- μέλισσα Ancient Greek
- μελίκρατον Ancient Greek
- μελίπτορθος Ancient Greek
- μελίτινος Ancient Greek
- μελίφρων Ancient Greek
- μελιηδής Ancient Greek
- μελισσόφυλλον Ancient Greek
- μῆλον Ancient Greek
- πτόρθος Ancient Greek
- ἡδύς Ancient Greek
- ὀμφακόμελι Ancient Greek
- ὄμφαξ Ancient Greek
- ῥόδον Ancient Greek
- *mélid Proto-Indo-European
- *mélit Proto-Indo-European
- melisse Norwegian Bokmål
- marmelada Portuguese
- marmelo Portuguese
- *mili Proto-Germanic
- マルメロ Japanese
- melisse Norwegian Nynorsk
- mil Irish
- miel Old French
- miere Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μέλι Greek (modern)
- υδρόμελι Greek (modern)
- Melissa Translingual
- մեղու Old Armenian
- մեղր Old Armenian
- mil Old Irish
- 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 Gothic
- marmelo Old Portuguese
- mel Old Portuguese
- 마르멜로 Korean
- *melli Proto-Italic
- meal Romansh
- mel Romansh
- mèl Romansh
- mêl Romansh
- miel Asturian
- mîl Friulian
- mel Old Occitan
- miel Old Spanish
- mil Dalmatian
- mele Sardinian
- mel Istriot
- *meliťťa Proto-Hellenic
- mele Corsican
- miel Aragonese
- m'ari Megleno-Romanian