Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFood that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. · Food served or eaten as a repast. · A break taken by a police officer in order to eat. · A time or an occasion.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *mēlą Proto-West Germanic *māl Old English mǣl Middle English mel English meal From Middle English mel, from Old English mǣl (“measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”), from Proto-West Germanic *māl, from Proto-Germanic *mēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with West Frisian miel, Dutch maal (“meal, time, occurrence”), German Mal (“time”), Mahl (“meal”), Norwegian Bokmål mål (“meal”), Swedish mål (“meal”); and (from Proto-Indo-European) with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), Latin mensus, Russian ме́ра (méra, “measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas. Related to Old English mǣþ (“measure, degree, proportion”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionmelenm
- Inherited-form mentionmǣlang · measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal
- Inherited-form mention*mālgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*mēlągem-pro
- Derivation mention*meh₁-ine-pro · to measure
- Cognate mentionmielfy
- Cognate mentionmaalnl · meal, time, occurrence
- Cognate mentionMalde · time
- Cognate mentionmålnb · meal
- Cognate mentionmålsv · meal
- Cognate mentionμέτρονgrc · measure
- Cognate mentionmensusla
- Cognate mentionме́раru
- Cognate mentionmẽtaslt
- Cognate mentionmǣþang · measure, degree, proportion
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