meel

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Dutch

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch mēle, Old Dutch *melo, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meːl/
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  • Hyphenation: meel
  • Rhymes: -eːl

Noun

meel n (uncountable)

  1. flour, meal, farina

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: meel

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "fiu-fin-pro" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mäľ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).

Pronunciation

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Noun

meel (genitive meele, partitive meelt)

  1. sense
    Viis meelt.
    The five senses.
  2. emotion, feeling
    Mul on hea meel, et ma sinuga kohtusin.
    I'm glad that I met you. (lit. "I have a good feeling that I met you")
  3. opinion, idea
    Me oleme samal meelel.
    We have the same opinion.
  4. (generally with järgi, järele) wish, desire
    See asi pole mulle meele järgi.
    This thing isn't to my desire. (i.e "I don't like this")
  5. (mostly in the locative cases) memory
    Mulle ei jää asjad meelde.
    I don't remember things. (lit. "Things don't stay into my memory.")
    Mul läks meelest ära.
    I forgot. (lit. "It went from my memory")
  6. (colloquial) mind, intelligence, smarts
    Viin võtab meele meeste peast.
    Vodka takes the mind out of men.

Usage notes

All senses except for "sense" and "mind" are mostly used in a large number of various fixed phrases.

Declension

Declension of meel (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative meel meeled
accusative nom.
gen. meele
genitive meelte
partitive meelt meeli
illative meelde
meelesse 		meeltesse
meelisse
inessive meeles meeltes
meelis
elative meelest meeltest
meelist
allative meelele meeltele
meelile
adessive meelel meeltel
meelil
ablative meelelt meeltelt
meelilt
translative meeleks meelteks
meeliks
terminative meeleni meelteni
essive meelena meeltena
abessive meeleta meelteta
comitative meelega meeltega

Ingrian

Noun

meel

  1. mind

Somali

Noun

meel ?

  1. place

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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  1. murmur dissatisfied

Etymology 2

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Noun

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  1. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "gmq-bot" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. part of the fish trap, wherein the fish are trapped
  2. sound, strait
Derived terms
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