meli

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See also: Meli, měli, mēli, melī, meļi, mēļi, and мели

Hawaiian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Coined by missionaries for the 1839 translation of the Bible. The missionaries had considered transcribing honey into Hawaiian as either hani (flirt, act coy) or as honi (kiss). The two were considered unacceptable as being too impure and as such the missionaries went to Ancient Greek to coin a word.

Noun[edit]

meli

  1. honey
    • 1839 Ka Baibala: Lunakanawai 14:8 (tr. Authorized Version of the Bible, Judges 14:8):
      A mahope iho hoi mai la ia e lawe ia ia, kipa ae la ia e nana i ke kino o ka liona, aia hoi, he poe nalomeli, a me ka meli pu maloko o ke kino o ua liona la.
      And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
  2. bee

Synonyms[edit]

Iban[edit]

Etymology[edit]

m +‎ beli

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /meli/
  • Rhymes: -li
  • Hyphenation: me‧li

Verb[edit]

meli

  1. to buy

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.li/
  • Rhymes: -ɛli
  • Hyphenation: mè‧li

Noun[edit]

meli m

  1. plural of melo

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

mēlī

  1. dative singular of mēlēs

Latvian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

See melis.

Noun[edit]

meli m

  1. vocative/accusative/instrumental singular of melis

Etymology 2[edit]

See mele.

Noun[edit]

meli f

  1. accusative/instrumental singular of mele

Etymology 3[edit]

Nominal derived from an old (unattested) verb *melt, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (to grind, to crush, to pound). The semantic evolution was probably: “something ground, crushed (to small pieces)” > “(unimportant) blabber, gossip” (a meaning attested for the verb malt in some contexts; compare also Russian молоть (molotʹ, to grind; to babble, to gossip)) > “lie, untruth.” Cognates include Lithuanian melúoti (to lie, to gossip), mẽlas, dialectal mãlas, Russian мел (mel, chalk), мелкий (melkij, fine, small, petty), German Mehl (flour), Middle Irish mell (error, delusion), Ancient Greek μέλεος (méleos, futile, superfluous, useless), Tocharian A smale (lie, untruth).[1]

Noun[edit]

meli m (1st declension)

  1. lie, falsehood, untruth
    nevainīgi melian innocent lie, a fib
    skaidri melia clear, obvious lie
    balti, salti melian outrageous (lit. white, frosty) lie
    izgudrot, stāstīt melusto invent, to tell lies
    atklāt melusto detect, to reveal a lie
Declension[edit]

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Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “melot”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Mapudungun[edit]

Mapudungun cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : meli
    Ordinal : meligeci

Numeral[edit]

meli (Raguileo spelling)

  1. four

Samoan[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English mail.

Noun[edit]

meli

  1. mail

Etymology 2[edit]

Ultimately from Latin mel, perhaps via Spanish miel.

Noun[edit]

meli

  1. honey

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Participle[edit]

meli (Cyrillic spelling мели)

  1. masculine plural active past participle of mesti

Sicilian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛli/
  • Hyphenation: mè‧li

Noun[edit]

meli m

  1. honey

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

Swahili[edit]

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Omani Arabic ميل (mēl), from English mail, in reference to the steamers that brought mail.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Noun[edit]

meli (n class, plural meli)

  1. ship
  2. cargo

Tocharian B[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare Tocharian A malañ.

Noun[edit]

meli

  1. (plural only) nose