different between jilt vs milt

English

Etymology

Contracted from Scots jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??lt/

• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

jilt (plural jilts)

1. A woman who jilts a lover.
   • 1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune

     And has she been long a Jilt? has she practi?ed the Trade for any Time?

Translations

Verb

jilt (third-person singular simple present jilts, present participle jilting, simple past and past participle jilted)

1. (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.

   • Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.

Translations

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (jild, “skin, hide”).

Noun

jilt (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. skin

English

Etymology

From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-Germanic *melt? (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

milt (plural milts)

1. The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
   • 1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life:

     Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.

2. The semen of a male fish.

Synonyms

• (spleen): spleen; lien (uncommon)
• (fish semen): soft roe, white roe

Derived terms

Related terms

• miltsiekte
• miltz

Translations

Verb

milt (third-person singular simple present milts, present participle milting, simple past and past participle milted)

1. (transitive) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

milt c (singular definite milten, plural indefinite milte)

1. spleen

Declension

References

• “milt” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle Dutch milte, from Old Dutch *milta, from Proto-Germanic *melt?.

Noun

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)

1. spleen

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Etymology 1

From Old Norse milti, Proto-Germanic *miltij?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”).

Noun

milt n (genitive singular milts, plural milt)

1. spleen

Inflection

Synonyms

• milti

Etymology 2

From the adjective mildur.

Adjective

milt

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of mildur

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Adjective

milt

1. strong neuter singular nominative of mildur

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

milt m (definite singular milten, indefinite plural milter, definite plural miltene)

1. spleen (organ)

Derived terms

• miltbrann

References

• “milt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• milte

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

milt m or n (definite singular milten or miltet, indefinite plural miltar or milt, definite plural miltane or milta)

1. spleen (organ)

Derived terms

• miltbrann

References

• “milt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Adjective

milt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of mild.

Adverb

milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)

1. gently, mildly; blandly