mele
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mele (plural mele or meles)
- A chant in Polynesia, especially Hawaii, typically in praise of a leader or to commemorate some significant event. [from 19th c.]
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 49:
- Lili‘u set to work assisting Fornander by translating mele and legends for him.
Etymology 2[edit]
Variant forms.
Noun[edit]
mele (plural meles)
- Alternative form of mell
Verb[edit]
mele (third-person singular simple present meles, present participle meling, simple past and past participle meled)
- Alternative form of mell
Anagrams[edit]
Aiwoo[edit]
Verb[edit]
mele
- to fly
References[edit]
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Corsican[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
Noun[edit]
mele
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
mele
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
mele (imperative mel, infinitive at mele, present tense meler, past tense melede, perfect tense har melet)
- flour (to apply flour to something)
Gothic[edit]
Romanization[edit]
mēlē
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴
Hausa[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)
- loss of pigmentation
Hawaiian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele.
Noun[edit]
mele
Usage notes[edit]
Verb[edit]
mele
References[edit]
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
mele f
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
mēle
References[edit]
- “mele”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Latvian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From melis (“liar”) + -e (“fem.”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
mele f (5th declension, masculine form: melis)
- (female) liar, deceiver (someone who is tells lies, who deceives others)
- nekaunīga mele ― shameless (female) liar
Declension[edit]
Declension of mele (5th declension)
Derived terms[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mele (uncountable)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “mēle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun[edit]
mele
- Alternative form of medle
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
mele
- Alternative form of mylne
Neapolitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mele m (uncountable)
References[edit]
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “mèle”, in Schedario Napoletano
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mel (“flour”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
mele (imperative mel, present tense meler, passive meles, simple past mela or melet or melte, past participle mela or melet or melt, present participle melende)
- to flour (to apply flour to something)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
mele
- inflection of melar:
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
mele
Sardinian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
Noun[edit]
mele m (plural meles)
References[edit]
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Participle[edit]
mele (Cyrillic spelling меле)
Yola[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English mele (“flour”), from Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
mele
- meal (coarse flour)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
mele
- Alternative form of meale (“feast, dinner”)
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56 & 61
Zazaki[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *madaxa. Cognate to Persian ملخ (malax), Ossetian мӕты́х (mætýx)
Noun[edit]
mele
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