meal
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From Middle English, from Old English mǣl (“measure, time, occasion, set time, time for eating, meal”), from Proto-Germanic *mēlan, *mēþō (“measure, meal, mealtime”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē-, *me- (“to measure”). Cognate with Dutch maal (“meal, time, occurrence”), German Mal (“time”), Mahl (“meal”), Swedish mål (“meal”); and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”), Latin mensus, Russian мера (mera, “measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas. Related to Old English mǣþ (“measure, degree, proportion”).
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meal (plural meals)
- Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc).
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- See also Wikisaurus:meal
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From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Germanic *melwan (“meal, flour”), *malanan, *malwijanan, *mulwijanan (“to grind, mill”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *mol(w)ə- (“to grind, mill”). Cognate with West Frisian moal, Dutch meel, German Mehl, Old Church Slavonic (melvo, “grain to be ground”), Albanian miell (“meal”), Dutch malen (“to grind”), German mahlen (“to grind”), Old Irish melim (“I grind”), Latin molō (“I grind”), Tocharian A/B malywët (“you press”)/melye (“they tread on”), Lithuanian málti, Old Church Slavonic млѣти (mlěti), Ancient Greek μύλη (mýlē, “mill”). More at mill.
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meal (uncountable)
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Variation of mole (compare Scots mail), from Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl, mǣl (“spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *mailan (“wrinkle, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to soil”). More at mole.
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meal (plural meals)
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meal (third-person singular simple present meals, present participle mealing, simple past and past participle mealed)
- (transitive) To defile or taint.
- Were he meal'd with that Which he corrects, than were he tyrannous. ― Shakespeare.
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meal
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From Latin mel, from Proto-Indo-European *mélh₁-it-.
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meal m.
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meal (present participle mealadh or mealtainn)
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- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
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- British English
- en:Dialectal
- English verbs
- 1000 English basic words
- en:Food and drink
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- Kurdish nouns
- Romansch terms derived from Latin
- Romansch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Romansch nouns
- Sutsilvan Romansch
- rm:Foods
- Scottish Gaelic verbs
