different between merl vs mell

English

Noun

merl (plural merls)

1. Alternative form of merle (blackbird)

Anagrams

• Erml

Romansch

Etymology

From Late Latin merulum, from Latin merula.

Noun

merl m (plural merls)

1. (Puter, Vallader) blackbird

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) merlotscha
• (Sutsilvan) marlotscha

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)

1. (Britain dialectal, transitive) To speak; tell; say.

Noun

mell

1. (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)

1. (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!”

Etymology 3

Latin mel.

Noun

mell (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Honey.
   • 1586, William Warner, Albion's England

     Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell, nor gall.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mels? (“knuckle”); possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel (“limb”).

Noun

mell

1. 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)

1. (anatomy) breast

   Synonyms: (formal or technical) eml?, (literary, also figurative) kebel, (dated, dialectal, or vulgar) csecs, (vulgar) csöcs, (colloquial or slang) cici

2. (anatomy, in certain compounds and phrases) chest

   Synonym: mellkas

3. (anatomy, attributive usage) thoracic

4. (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

1. 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