μύλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *mólā, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind; crush”). Doublet of μῠ́λος (mŭ́los). 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 • (mŭ́lē) f (genitive μῠ́λης); first declension

1. mill (a hand-mill turned by women)
2. nether millstone
3. kneepan
4. a hard formation in a woman's womb
5. (in the plural) molar (teeth)
6. synonym of μῶλῠ (môlŭ)

Declension

First declension of ἡ μῠ́λη; τῆς μῠ́λης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῠ́λη hē mŭ́lē	τὼ μῠ́λᾱ tṑ mŭ́lā	αἱ μῠ́λαι hai mŭ́lai
Genitive	τῆς μῠ́λης tês mŭ́lēs	τοῖν μῠ́λαιν toîn mŭ́lain	τῶν μῠλῶν tôn mŭlôn
Dative	τῇ μῠ́λῃ tēî mŭ́lēi	τοῖν μῠ́λαιν toîn mŭ́lain	ταῖς μῠ́λαις taîs mŭ́lais
Accusative	τὴν μῠ́λην tḕn mŭ́lēn	τὼ μῠ́λᾱ tṑ mŭ́lā	τᾱ̀ς μῠ́λᾱς tā̀s mŭ́lās
Vocative	μῠ́λη mŭ́lē	μῠ́λᾱ mŭ́lā	μῠ́λαι mŭ́lai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μῠλαῖος (mŭlaîos)
• μῠ́λᾰξ (mŭ́lăx)
• μῠλᾰ́ρῐον (mŭlắrĭon)
• μῠλεργᾰ́της (mŭlergắtēs)
• μῠλεύς (mŭleús)
• μῠληβόρος (mŭlēbóros)
• μῠληθρῐ́ς (mŭlēthrĭ́s)
• μῠλήκορον (mŭlḗkoron)
• μῠλήφᾰτος (mŭlḗphătos)
• μῠλῐ́ᾱς (mŭlĭ́ās)
• μῠλῐᾰ́ω (mŭlĭắō)
• μῠλῐ́ζω (mŭlĭ́zō)
• μῠλῐκός (mŭlĭkós)
• μῠ́λῐνος (mŭ́lĭnos)
• μῠ́λλω (mŭ́llō)
• μῠλόδους (mŭlódous)
• μῠλοειδής (mŭloeidḗs)
• μῠλόεις (mŭlóeis)
• μῠλοεργής (mŭloergḗs)
• μῠ́λοικος (mŭ́loikos)
• μῠλοκόπος (mŭlokópos)
• μῠλουργός (mŭlourgós)
• μῠλωθρός (mŭlōthrós)
• μῠλών (mŭlṓn)
• μῠλωνᾰ́ρχης (mŭlōnắrkhēs)
• ῠ̔δρομῠ́λη (hŭdromŭ́lē)
• χειρομῠ́λη (kheiromŭ́lē)

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.