mell

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɛl/

Etymology 1

From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English mǣlan (“to speak, talk”), from Old English mǣl (“speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle”) and Old English māl (“suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay”), both from Proto-Germanic *mahlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), alteration of *maþlą (“meeting, congress, speech”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mad-, *mōd- (“to meet, encounter”). Cognate with Scots mele (“to speak, converse, tell”), Danish mæle (“to speak, utter”), Icelandic mæla (“to speak, say”), Old High German mahalōn (“to charge, accuse, proscecute”), German vermählen (“to wed, marry”).

Alternative forms

• mele

Verb

mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)

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

Noun

mell (plural mells)

1. (UK 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!”

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Breton

Noun

mell

1. joint

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *mälke (“breast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɛlː/

Noun

mell (plural mellek)

1. breast

Declension

declension of mell singular plural nominative mell mellek accusative mellet melleket dative mellnek melleknek instrumental melllel mellekkel causal-final mellért mellekért translative melllé mellekké terminative mellig mellekig essive-formal mellként mellekként essive-modal - - inessive mellben mellekben superessive mellen melleken adessive mellnél melleknél illative mellbe mellekbe sublative mellre mellekre allative mellhez mellekhez elative mellből mellekből delative mellről mellekről ablative melltől mellektől

possessives of mell possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. mellem melleim 2nd person sing. melled melleid 3rd person sing. melle mellei 1st person plural mellünk melleink 2nd person plural melletek melleitek 3rd person plural mellük melleik

Derived terms

• mellék
• mellény
• mellső

Compound words

• mellbimbó
• mellbőség
• mellhártya
• mellkas
• melltartó
• mellúszás

Expressions

• veri a mellét