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mell
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?l/
Etymology 1
From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English m?lan (“to speak, talk”), from m?l (“speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle”) and m?l (“suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay”), both from Proto-Germanic *mahl? (“meeting, congress, speech”), alteration of *maþl? (“meeting, congress, speech”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d- (“to meet, encounter”). Cognate with Scots mele (“to speak, converse, tell”), Danish mæle (“to speak, utter”), Icelandic mæla (“to speak, say”), Old High German mahal?n (“to charge, accuse, proscecute”), German vermählen (“to wed, marry”). More at blackmail.
Alternative forms
- mele
Verb
mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)
- (Britain dialectal, transitive) To speak; tell; say.
Noun
mell
- (Britain dialectal) Discourse; conversation.
Etymology 2
From Middle English mellen, from Old French meller, mesler (“to mix, mingle”). Compare mêlée, meddle.
Verb
mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)
- (intransitive, archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
- c. 1495, John Skelton, "Vppon a deedman's hed":
- For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell.
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, ch. 32,
- “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”
- c. 1495, John Skelton, "Vppon a deedman's hed":
Etymology 3
Latin mel.
Noun
mell (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Honey.
- 1586, William Warner, Albion's England
- Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell, nor gall.
- 1586, William Warner, Albion's England
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *mels? (“knuckle”); possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel (“limb”).
Noun
mell
- joint
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- melly (dialectal or archaic)
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mälke (“breast”). Cognates include Southern Mansi møul, Central Mansi mä?l, Northern Mansi ?????? (m?gyl, “breast”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m?l?]
- Rhymes: -?l?
Noun
mell (plural mellek)
- (anatomy) breast
- Synonyms: (formal or technical) eml?, (literary, also figurative) kebel, (dated, dialectal, or vulgar) csecs, (vulgar) csöcs, (colloquial or slang) cici
- (anatomy, in certain compounds and phrases) chest
- Synonym: mellkas
- (anatomy, attributive usage) thoracic
- (swimming) Ellipsis of mellúszás (“breaststroke”).
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- mell in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English medlen.
Verb
mell
- to meddle
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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mall
English
Etymology
Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mæl/, /m??l/
- Rhymes: -æl, Rhymes: -??l
- (General New Zealand, US (varieties without the cot-caught merger), New England, General Australian) IPA(key): /m??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Homophone: maul with -awl pronunciation
- (US (varieties with the cot-caught merger), Canada) IPA(key): /m?l/
- Homophone: moll
- Rhymes: -??l
Noun
mall (countable and uncountable, plural malls)
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. [from 20th c.]
- 2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t, page 179,
- America?s first pedestrianized shopping mall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian malls, it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
- 2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t, page 179,
- An enclosed shopping centre. [from 20th c.]
- 2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well, unnumbered page,
- Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America?s enclosed shopping malls.
- 2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well, unnumbered page,
- (obsolete) An alley where the game of pall mall was played. [17th-19th c.]
- A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade. [from 18th c.]
- 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism
- Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.
- 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism
- A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall. [from 17th c.]
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- (obsolete) The game of polo. [17th c.]
- (obsolete) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall. [17th-19th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotton to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mall (third-person singular simple present malls, present participle malling, simple past and past participle malled)
- to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
- to build up with the development of shopping malls
- (informal) to shop at the mall
References
- mall at OneLook Dictionary Search
- mall in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Albanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ma?]
Noun
mall m (indefinite plural malle, definite singular malli, definite plural mallet)
- Alternative form of mal (“mountain”)
Declension
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Turkish mal.
Noun
mall m (indefinite plural mallra, definite singular malli, definite plural mallrat)
- goods
- Synonym: çeshit
Declension
Etymology 2
From Proto-Albanian *mala, from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“black”), compare zi (“black, mourning, sadness”) and mallëngjej (“to touch emotionally, to move”). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *malwa, close to Sanskrit ???? (malvá, “foolish, thoughtless, unwise”), Middle Low German mall (“stupid, foolish”), West Frisian m?l (“foolish, mad”). Alternatively, from Latin malum.
Noun
mall m (indefinite plural malle, definite singular malli, definite plural mallet)
- longing, missing, nostalgia
Declension
References
Breton
Noun
mall m
- haste
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin malleus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?ma?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
mall m (plural malls)
- hammer
Further reading
- “mall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from English mall.
Noun
mall
- a shopping mall
- (by extension) a department store
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish mall; see there.
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /m??ul??/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /m???l??/ (Galway); IPA(key): /m?al??/ (Mayo)
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /m?al??/
Adjective
mall (genitive singular masculine mall, genitive singular feminine moille, plural malla, comparative moille)
- slow
Declension
Mutation
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *malnos (“slow, lazy”), of uncertain derivation, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to be late, hesitate”) + *-nós; compare Ancient Greek ????? (méll?, “be late”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mal?/
Adjective
mall (comparative mailliu, superlative maillem)
- slow
- c. 700-800, Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 3537
- c. 700-800, Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 3537
- tardy, late
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5c5
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5c5
Inflection
Descendants
- Middle Irish: mall
- Irish: mall
- Manx: moal
- Scottish Gaelic: mall
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
References
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish mall; see above.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mau?/
Adjective
mall
- slow
- tardy, late
- lazy
- weak
- calm, placid
- dull, senseless
Derived terms
- luath no mall
- ruigidh each mall muileann
References
- “mall” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mol/, [?mol]
Noun
mall m (plural malls)
- mall (shopping centre)
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mal/
Noun
mall c
- a template
- Synonym: schablon
Declension
Westrobothnian
Noun
mall m
- Alternative spelling of maall
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