milwell
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- millwell, mulvil, melwell
- (obsolete): mellwell, myllewell, myllwell, melwel, mulvel, milwel, mellewelle, mylwell
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English milwell (amid many other forms), from Anglo-Norman meluel (amid other forms) and Old French moluel, probably from moruel, from Old Breton mor (“sea”) (from Proto-Brythonic *mor) + Old French lus and luz (“pike, [as sea-luce] hake”) + -el (diminutive suffix).[1]
Noun
[edit]milwell (plural milwells)
- (Scotland, dialectal or historical) The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).
References
[edit]- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "milwell, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2002.
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- melewel, melewell, mellewelle
- meluel, melvel, melwel
- milewel, milewell, millevell; millewell
- miluel, milvel, milwel, milwell, milwelle
- mollewelle
- mulewel, mulewell, muluwelle
- muluel, mulvel, mulvelle, mulwel, mulwell, mulwelle, mulwyl
- myllewell, myllewelle
- myllwell, myluel, mylwel, mylwell
- milwyn, myllwyn
Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman; see the English section above.
Noun
[edit]milwell
- milwell: the Atlantic cod
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: milwell
- Latin: melewellus, miluuellus, milvellus, milwellus, mulewellus, muluwellus, mulvellus, mulwellus
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