Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mulīnu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Alternative reconstructions

• *mulī

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin molīnum (“mill”).

Noun

*mulīnu n

1. mill

Inflection

Neuter wa-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mulīnu
Genitive	*mulīnwas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mulīnu	*mulīnu
Accusative	*mulīnu	*mulīnu
Genitive	*mulīnwas	*mulīnwō
Dative	*mulīnwē	*mulīnum
Instrumental	*mulīnu	*mulīnum

Descendants

• Old English: mylen, myln
  • Middle English: mylne, mele, melle, mille, miln, milne, myle, mylene, mylle, myln; molle, mule, mulle, mulne (Southern)
    • English: mill
      • Sranan Tongo: miri
      • → Hindi: मिल (mil)
    • Scots: mill, mull
    • Yola: mile
• Old Saxon: *mulin
  • Middle Low German: mōlen
    • Low German: Möhl
• Old Dutch: mulin
  • Middle Dutch: mōlen
    • Dutch: molen
    • Limburgish: meule
• Old High German: mulin, mulī
  • Middle High German: mül, müle
    • Alemannic German: Müli
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: müul

      Mòcheno: mil

    • Central Franconian: Möhl
      • Hunsrik: Mihl
      • Luxembourgish: Millen
    • German: Mühle
    • Pennsylvania German: Miehl
    • Yiddish: מיל (mil)
• → Proto-Slavic: *mъlinъ
  • Macedonian: млин (mlin)
  • Serbo-Croatian: mlin, млин
  • Slovak: mlyn
  • Slovene: mlin
  • Ukrainian: млин (mlyn)
  • → Hungarian: malom