mil

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English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mil (plural mils)

  1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 16400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 16000 and 16300 are used in other countries.
  2. A unit of measurement equal to 11000 of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
  3. A former subdivision (11000) of the Maltese lira.
  4. (informal, plural "mil") Abbreviation of million.
    • 2009, Bob Frey, The DVD Murders, page 39:
      The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil.
    • 2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:
      You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.
  5. (informal) Clipping of milliliter; mL.

Derived terms

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Adjective

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mil (not comparable)

  1. Clipping of military.

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Anagrams

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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Akin to Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Asturian

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Asturian cardinal numbers
 <  999 1000 1001  > 
    Cardinal : mil
    Ordinal : milésimu

Etymology

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From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

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mil (indeclinable)

  1. one thousand; 1000
    mil llobosone thousand wolves
    mil vaquesone thousand cows

Usage notes

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In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:

  • mil dosone thousand two
  • mil trenta y nueveone thousand thirty-nine
  • tres milthree thousand
  • venti miltwenty thousand

Breton

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Welsh mil, Irish míle.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Etymology 2

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From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl, Welsh mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (small animal”).

Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, lamb), Armenian մալ (mal, sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, livestock), Dutch maal (calf).

Noun

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mil m (plural miled)

  1. (rare) animal
    Synonyms: aneval, loen

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Catalan

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Catalan numbers (edit)
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000 1,000,000 (106)  → 
100
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal (Central): milè
    Ordinal (Valencian): milé
    Ordinal: mil·lèsim

Etymology

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From Old Catalan mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (one thousand).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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mil m or f

  1. (cardinal number) thousand

Noun

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mil m (plural mils)

  1. thousand

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Cebuano

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Cebuano numbers (edit)
10,000
[a], [b], [c] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 2,000  →  10,000  → 
100[a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: usá ka libo, libo
    Spanish cardinal: mil

Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish mil (thousand).

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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mil m

  1. honey

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mil

  1. mile, unit of length of varying value

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Esperanto

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Esperanto numbers (edit)
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000
100
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: mila
    Adverbial: mile
    Multiplier: milobla, milopa
    Fractional: milona, milono

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mīlle. Doublet of mejlo.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Estonian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]
  • Hyphenation: mil

Etymology 1

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Clipping of millal.

Conjunction

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mil

  1. when
    Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.
    There will once be a day when we have to go.

Etymology 2

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Clipping of millel.

Adverb

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mil (not comparable)

  1. that
    Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.
    There was a car on the street that had red stripes.

French

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Etymology

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From Latin milium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mil m (plural mils)

  1. (now dialectal) millet
    Synonym: millet

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Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Galician

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Galician numbers (edit)
[a], [b], [c] ←  100  ←  900 1,000
100[a], [b], [c]
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1000º
    Fractional: milésimo
Carro
Carro

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmiɫ]
  • Rhymes: -il
  • Hyphenation: mil

Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (one thousand).

Numeral

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mil (indeclinable)

  1. one thousand; 1000

Etymology 2

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1474. From Vulgar Latin *medianile, from Latin mediānus. Compare the cognates mión and molo.[1]

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Noun

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mil m (plural miles)

  1. central piece of the Galician cart wheel
    Synonyms: mión, miúl, molo
    • 1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:
      Iten, preçaron hun rrodisioe dous miilles de carro em noventa maravedis
      Item, they appraised a water wheel and two wheel centers of a cart in ninety maravedis

References

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  1. ^ Cf. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “medio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Gamilaraay

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Noun

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mil

  1. eye

Haitian Creole

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mil

  1. thousand
  2. mile (measure of distance)

Ido

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Ido numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milesma
    Adverbial: milfoye
    Multiplier: milopla
    Fractional: milima

Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto milFrench milleItalian milleSpanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Ilocano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish mil.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/ [ˈmil]
  • Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand
    Synonym: ribo

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Dutch mijl, from Middle Dutch mile, ultimately from Latin mīlia.

Noun

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mil (plural mil-mil, first-person possessive milku, second-person possessive milmu, third-person possessive milnya)

  1. English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.6 km
  2. (historical) mijl, Dutch mile or league, a unit of distance equivalent to about 5–6 km
  3. milepost, milestone, km marker
    Synonyms: batu, pal, tonggak
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Etymology 2

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From English mail, from Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (bag, wallet), from Frankish *malha (bag), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (bag, pouch), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (leather pouch).

Noun

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mil (plural mil-mil, first-person possessive milku, second-person possessive milmu, third-person possessive milnya)

  1. (colloquial) mail: the material conveyed by the postal service.

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mil,[1] from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to milis and blas.

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Noun

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mil f (genitive singular meala)

  1. honey

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mil mhil not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 99, page 39

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Kabuverdianu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese mil.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand (1000)

Ladin

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Etymology

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

Noun

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mil f (uncountable)

  1. honey

References

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  • 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

Louisiana Creole

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Louisiana Creole cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : mil

Etymology

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Inherited from French mille (thousand).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Lule

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Pronoun

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mil

  1. you (plural)

References

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  • Antonio Maccioni / Machoni, Arte y vocabulario de la lengua lule y tonocoté (1732)

Maltese

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Etymology

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From Arabic مِيل (mīl).

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Noun

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mil m (dual milejn, plural mjiel or mili)

  1. mile

Mòcheno

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Etymology

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From Middle High German mül, müle, from Old High German mulī, mulin, from Proto-Germanic *mulīnō, *mulīnaz, from Late Latin molīnum (mill). Cognate with German Mühle, English mill.

Noun

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mil f

  1. mill

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Ngiyambaa

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Noun

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mil

  1. (anatomy) eye

Northern Kurdish

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Noun

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mil ?

  1. arm
  2. shoulder
  3. neck

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

Noun

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mil m or f (definite singular mila or milen, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

  1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
  2. gammel norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
  3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

Noun

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mil f (definite singular mila, indefinite plural mil, definite plural milene)

  1. (today in Norway) a distance of 10 kilometres
  2. gammal norsk mil - old Norwegian mile, a distance of 11.3 kilometres
  3. engelsk mil - a mile, 1.609 kilometres, as used in Britain and the US.

Usage notes

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Indefinite plural miler was made non-standard by the spelling reform of 2012.

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References

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Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand
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Further reading

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  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians[2], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 648.

Old English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

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Noun

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mīl f

  1. mile
    • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
      Sardina is þrī and þrītti mīla lang, and twā and twentiġ mīla brād.
      Sardinia is thirty-three miles long, and twenty-two miles wide.

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: myle, mile

Old French

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Numeral

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mil

  1. Alternative form of mile (thousand)

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *meli n, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit.

Noun

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mil f (genitive melo)

  1. honey
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7d9
      Hi sunt tra ↄ·ricc frissa lind serb in chúrsactha lase foruillecta beóil in chalich di mil cosse anall...
      Herein, then, he comes into contact with the bitter drink of the reproval, when the lips of the chalice have hitherto been smeared with honey...

Inflection

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Feminine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative mil
Vocative mil
Accusative milN
Genitive meloH, melaH
Dative milL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mil
also mmil after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
mil
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Spanish mil and Portuguese mil and Kabuverdianu mil.

Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand (1000)

Pipil

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Etymology

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Compare Classical Nahuatl milpan.

Noun

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mil

  1. cornfield

Further reading

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  • Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
  • Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

Portuguese

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Portuguese numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 10,000  →  1,000,000 (106)  → 
100[a], [b]
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1000.º
    Fractional: milésimo, mil avos

Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (one thousand).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
  • Hyphenation: mil

Adjective

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mil m or f

  1. one thousand; a thousand; 1000
  2. (somewhat poetic) thousands of (very many)
    Synonyms: milhares de, um milhão de

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

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Romanian

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Noun

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mil n (plural miluri)

  1. Obsolete form of milă.

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References

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  • mil in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mil (genitive mela), from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Welsh mêl, Cornish mill, Breton mel, Latin mel, Greek μέλι (méli), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mil f (genitive singular mealach or meala, plural mealan)

  1. honey
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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
mil mhil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “mil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[3], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *milъ. Cognate with Polish miły.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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mȋl (comparative milȇjši, superlative nȁjmilȇjši)

  1. kind
  2. dear

Inflection

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Hard
masculine feminine neuter
nom. sing. míl míla mílo
singular
masculine feminine neuter
nominative míl ind
míli def
míla mílo
genitive mílega míle mílega
dative mílemu míli mílemu
accusative nominativeinan or
genitive
anim
mílo mílo
locative mílem míli mílem
instrumental mílim mílo mílim
dual
masculine feminine neuter
nominative míla míli míli
genitive mílih mílih mílih
dative mílima mílima mílima
accusative míla míli míli
locative mílih mílih mílih
instrumental mílima mílima mílima
plural
masculine feminine neuter
nominative míli míle míla
genitive mílih mílih mílih
dative mílim mílim mílim
accusative míle míle míla
locative mílih mílih mílih
instrumental mílimi mílimi mílimi

Further reading

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  • mil”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

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Spanish numbers (edit)
10,000
[a], [b] ←  100  ←  900 1,000 2,000  →  10,000  → 
100[a], [b]
    Cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: milésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1000.º
    Fractional: milésimo

Etymology

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From Old Spanish mil or Old Spanish mill, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (one thousand).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Usage notes

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  • When pluralized as a specific number, the form mil is still used:
    dos mil pesostwo thousand pesos
    cien mil pesosone hundred thousand pesos

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Noun

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mil m (plural miles)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) thousand (1000 units of something) (usually in an indefinite sense)
    Gané muchos miles de dólares.
    I earned many thousands of dollars

Further reading

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Swedish

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Etymology

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Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

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Noun

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mil c

  1. (after 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters
    Synonyms: nymil, myriameter
    • 2020 February 19, Maria Dahlin, “Sverige prisas för 2+1-väg [Sweden is praised for 2+1 road]”, in Vi bilägare:
      IRAP rekommenderar nu bland annat Indien och Mexiko att bygga 2+1-vägar och tar som exempel att 93.000 liv skulle kunna räddas på 20 år i Indien om 1.750 mil mötesväg gjordes om till 2+1-väg.
      IRAP is now recommending countries like India and Mexico to build 2+1 roads and cites an example that 93,000 lives could be saved over 20 years in India if 17,500 kilometres of two-way roads were converted to 2+1 roads.
      (literally, “1,750 miles”)
  2. (between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,688.54 meters
    Synonym: landmil
    • 1831, Fredrik Cederborgh, Berättelse om [] John Hall, page 5:
      För att kunna åtkomma dylikt, wäl rätt artigt men föga räntegifwande kram, beslöt han, att, med en särdeles wäl försedd kaßa, resa till Danmarks hufwudstad, ungefär trettio mil aflägsen från deß födelseort Götheborg.
      In order to be able to access such, indeed quite polite but hardly interest bearing hug, he decided, with a particularly well-stocked purse, to travel to Denmark's capital city, about thirty miles distant from their birthplace, Gothenburg.

Declension

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Declension of mil 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mil milen mil milen
Genitive mils milens mils milens

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Tagalog

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Tagalog numbers (edit)
10,000
 ←  100  ←  900 1,000 1,100  →  2,000  → 
100
    Cardinal: sanlibo
    Spanish cardinal: mil
    Ordinal: ikalibo, panlibo, ikasanlibo, pansanlibo
    Ordinal abbreviation: ika-1000, pang-1000
    Adverbial: makalibo, makalilibo, makasanlibo
    Multiplier: sanlibong ibayo
    Distributive: libo-libo, panlibo, tigsanlibo, sanlibuhan, sanli-sanlibo
    Collective: libo
    Restrictive: sasanlibo
    Fractional: kasanlibo, sangkasanlibo, ikasanlibo, saikasanlibo

Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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mil (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜎ᜔)

  1. thousand
    Synonym: libo
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Further reading

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  • mil”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

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Tatar

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Noun

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mil

  1. (archaic) a unit of length: 1 mil = 7 çaqrım = 7.467 km (see Obsolete Tatar units of measurement)

Declension

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Turkish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

  1. mile (measure of length)

Volapük

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Numeral

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mil

  1. thousand

Vurës

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French mille, from Latin mīlle.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mil

  1. One thousand vatu (currency of Vanuatu).

References

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  1. ^ Catriona Malau (September 2021) “mil”, in A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu (Asia-Pacific Linguistics), Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 121

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish myl, Breton mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (small animal”).

Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, lamb), Armenian մալ (mal, sheep; mutton; wether; cattle; livestock), Central Kurdish ماڵ (mall, livestock), Dutch maal (calf).

Noun

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mil m (plural milod)

  1. animal, beast, creature
  2. vermin (animal not normally eaten by people)
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Welsh mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Breton mil, Irish míle.

Numeral

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mil f (plural miloedd)

  1. (cardinal number) one thousand
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Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mil fil unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mil”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wiradjuri

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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mil

  1. (anatomy) eye

Yagara

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Noun

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mil

  1. eye

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Yapese

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Verb

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mil

  1. to run