different between grist vs millet

English

Etymology

From Middle English grist, gryst, from Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *gredan? (“to crunch”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rew- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with Old Saxon gristgrimmo (“gnashing of the teeth”), German Griesgram (“a grumbler, a grouch, peevishness, misery”), Old English gristel (“gristle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

grist (countable and uncountable, plural grists)

1. Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
2. (obsolete) A group of bees.
3. (colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.
4. (ropemaking) A given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands.

Derived terms

• grist mill / gristmill
• grist for the mill (chiefly US)
• grist to the mill (chiefly UK)

Related terms

• gristle

Translations

Anagrams

• Grits, girts, grits, strig, trigs

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

grist

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of grissen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of grissen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• grisa, griset

Verb

grist

1. past participle of grise

Slovene

Verb

gr?st

1. supine of gristi

English

Etymology 1

From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French millet; from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek ?????? (melín?, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

millet (countable and uncountable, plural millets)

1. Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.

Hyponyms

• (food grains): Urochloa deflexa (syn. Brachiaria deflexa; Guinea millet), Urochloa ramosa (syn. Brachiaria ramosa; brown-top millet), Coix lacryma-jobi (Job's tears, adlay millet), Digitaria exilis, Echinochloa, Eleusine coracana, Eragrostis tef, Panicum miliaceum, Urochloa ramosa (syn. Panicum ramosum), Panicum sumatrense, Paspalum scrobiculatum, Pennisetum glaucum, Setaria italica, Sorghum

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

See also

• Appendix:Grains

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• millet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Millet on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Turkish millet, from Ottoman Turkish ???? (millet), from Persian ???? (mellat), from Arabic ??????? (milla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l?t/

Noun

millet (plural millets)

1. (historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
   • 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14:

     […] in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 262:

     Christians and Jews as People of the Book […] were organized into separate communities, or millets, defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.

Translations

French

Etymology

From mil +? -et; a diminutive of mil, from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.j?/

Noun

millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)

1. millet (grain)

Further reading

• “millet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (milla).

Noun

millet (definite accusative milleti, plural milletler)

1. nation

   Synonym: ulus