meli
Hawaiian
Etymology
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1839 Ka Baibala: Lunakanawai 14:8 (tr. Authorized Version of the Bible, Judges 14:8):
- bee
Synonyms
- (bee): nalo meli
Italian
Noun
meli m
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) mēlī
Latvian
Etymology 1
See melis.
Noun
meli m
- (deprecated template usage) vocative singular form of melis
- (deprecated template usage) accusative singular form of melis
- (deprecated template usage) instrumental singular form of melis
Etymology 2
See mele.
Noun
meli f
- (deprecated template usage) accusative singular form of mele
- (deprecated template usage) instrumental singular form of mele
Etymology 3
Nominal derived from an old (unattested) verb *melt, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“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
meli m (1st declension)
- lie, falsehood, untruth
- nevainīgi meli ― an innocent lie, a fib
- skaidri meli ― a clear, obvious lie
- balti, salti meli ― an outrageous (lit. white, frosty) lie
- izgudrot, stāstīt melus ― to invent, to tell lies
- atklāt melus ― to detect, to reveal a lie
Declension
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | — | meli |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | — | melus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | — | melu |
dative (datīvs) | — | meliem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | — | meliem |
locative (lokatīvs) | — | melos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | meli |
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “melot”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Mapudungun
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Cardinal : meli Ordinal : ? | ||
Numeral
meli (using Raguileo Alphabet)
Samoan
Etymology 1
Noun
meli
Etymology 2
Noun
meli
Sicilian
Etymology
From Latin mel, melle.
Pronunciation
Noun
meli m
Swahili
Noun
meli (n class, plural meli)
Tocharian B
Etymology
Compare Tocharian A malañ.
Noun
meli
- (plural only) nose
- Latvian etymologies from LEV
- Hawaiian terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Hawaiian learned borrowings from Ancient Greek
- Hawaiian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Italian non-lemma forms
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- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Latvian nouns
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- Latvian terms with usage examples
- Latvian first declension nouns
- Latvian pluralia tantum
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- Samoan terms borrowed from English
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- Samoan nouns
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- sm:Foods
- sm:Post
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- Sicilian terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Sicilian nouns
- Sicilian masculine nouns
- scn:Condiments
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- sw:Watercraft
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- Tocharian B nouns
- Tocharian B pluralia tantum
- txb:Anatomy