-meal

See also: meal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

Etymology 1

From Middle English -mele, from Old English -mǣlum (“at times”), from Proto-Germanic *mēlamiz, instrumental case of Proto-Germanic *mēlą (“measure; time”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian -moal, Dutch -maal, German Low German -maal, German -mal. More at meal.

Suffix

-meal

1. (rare or no longer productive) Used to denote a fixed number, measure, or amount at a time.

   wordmeal (“one word at a time, word by word”)

Derived terms

• bitmeal
• dropmeal
• flockmeal
• footmeal
• heapmeal
• inchmeal
• leafmeal
• littlemeal
• pagemeal
• piecemeal
• stepmeal
• stoundmeal
• thousandmeal
• whilemeal
• wordmeal

Etymology 2

From Middle English mele, from Old English melu (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Germanic *melwą (“meal, flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *mol(w)ə- (“to grind, mill”). More at meal.

Suffix

-meal

1. Denotes a powder made of ground cereal.

Derived terms

• cornmeal
• oatmeal
• peasemeal

English terms suffixed with -meal

Anagrams

• Elam, Elma, Lema, Malé, alme, amel, lame, lamé, leam, lema, male, mela, mela-