different between mulse vs milse

English

Etymology

Latin mulsum (vinum), from mulsus (“mixed with honey, honey-sweet”), past participle of mulcere (“sweeten, soften”).

Noun

mulse (uncountable)

1. Wine boiled and mixed with honey.

Anagrams

• Lemus, Mules, mules

Latin

Participle

mulse

1. vocative masculine singular of mulsus

English

Etymology

From Middle English milsen, milcen, milcien, from Old English miltsian (“to compassionate, pity, show mercy, soften, make merciful”), from Proto-Germanic *mildisj? (“kindness”), from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (“mild”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“to beat, grind”). Related to Old English milts (“mercy, compassion, benevolence, kindness, favor, joy”), Old English milde (“mild, merciful, kind, generous, gentle, meek”). More at mild.

Verb

milse (third-person singular simple present milses, present participle milsing, simple past and past participle milsed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To be merciful to; show clemency to; pardon.

Anagrams

• Imels, Liems, Miles, limes, miles, misle, slime, smile

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??l???/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish millse (“sweetness”).

Noun

milse f (genitive singular milse)

1. Synonym of milseacht (“sweetness; blandness, smoothness (of tongue), flattery”)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

milse

1. inflection of milis (“sweet”):
   1. genitive singular feminine
   2. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural
   3. comparative degree

Mutation

Further reading

• "milse" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “millse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language