μύλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *mólā, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Doublet of μῠ́λος (múlos). Cognate with Latin mola, English meal, maelstrom.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mý.lɛː/ → /ˈmy.li/ → /ˈmi.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mý.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.li/

Noun

μῠ́λη • (múlē) f (genitive μῠ́λης); first declension

1. A mill, a hand-mill turned by women.
2. A nether millstone.
3. A kneepan.
4. A hard formation in a woman's womb.
5. (in the plural) Molars.
6. Synonym of μῶλῠ (môlu).

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μῠ́λη; τῆς μῠ́λης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῠ́λη hē múlē	τὼ μῠ́λᾱ tṑ múlā	αἱ μῠ́λαι hai múlai
Genitive	τῆς μῠ́λης tês múlēs	τοῖν μῠ́λαιν toîn múlain	τῶν μῠλῶν tôn mulôn
Dative	τῇ μῠ́λῃ têi múlēi	τοῖν μῠ́λαιν toîn múlain	ταῖς μῠ́λαις taîs múlais
Accusative	τὴν μῠ́λην tḕn múlēn	τὼ μῠ́λᾱ tṑ múlā	τᾱ̀ς μῠ́λᾱς tā̀s múlās
Vocative	μῠ́λη múlē	μῠ́λᾱ múlā	μῠ́λαι múlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μῠλαῖος (mulaîos)
• μῠλεργᾰ́της (mulergátēs)
• μῠλεύς (muleús)
• μῠληβόρος (mulēbóros)
• μῠληθρῐ́ς (mulēthrís)
• μῠλήκορον (mulḗkoron)
• μῠλήφᾰτος (mulḗphatos)
• μῠ́λλω (múllō)
• μῠλόδους (mulódous)
• μῠλοειδής (muloeidḗs)
• μῠλόεις (mulóeis)
• μῠλοεργής (muloergḗs)
• μῠ́λοικος (múloikos)
• μῠλοκόπος (mulokópos)
• μῠλουργός (mulourgós)
• μῠλωθρός (mulōthrós)
• μῠλών (mulṓn)
• μῠλωνᾰ́ρχης (mulōnárkhēs)
• μῠ́λᾰξ (múlax)
• μῠλᾰ́ρῐον (mulárion)
• μῠλῐκός (mulikós)
• μῠ́λῐνος (múlinos)
• μῠλῐᾰ́ω (muliáō)
• μῠλῐ́ᾱς (mulíās)
• χειρομῠ́λη (kheiromúlē)
• ῠ̔δρομῠ́λη (hudromúlē)

 

Descendants

• ⇒ New Latin: mylohȳoīdēs, mylohȳoīdeus
  • → English: mylohyoid, mylohyoideus

References

• “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μύλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μύλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μύλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μύλη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • mill idem, page 529.