mil

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mil"

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl
• Homophone: mill

Noun

mil (plural mils)

1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and ¹⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.
2. A unit of measurement equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
3. a former subdivision (¹⁄₁₀₀₀) 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 (“millilitre”)., Acronym of mL.

Translations

angular mil

• Finnish: piiru (fi) (¹⁄₆₀₀₀)
• French: millième (fr) m

• German: Strich (de) m, artillerischer Strich m
• Russian: мил (ru) m (mil) (¹⁄₆₀₀₀)

See also

• degree, deg
• radian, rad
• grad
• second
• minute
• for abbreviation, see mil.
• mil-dot

Anagrams

• -lim-, ILM, Lim, MLI

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Aragonese

Etymology

Akin to Spanish mil, from Latin mille.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

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Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

<  999	1000	1001  >
Cardinal : mil     Ordinal : milésimu

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

   mil llobos ― one thousand wolves

   mil vaques ― one thousand cows

Usage notes

In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:

• mil dos ― one thousand two
• mil trenta y nueve ― one thousand thirty-nine
• tres mil ― three thousand
• venti mil ― twenty thousand

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Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːl/

Etymology 1

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

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Etymology 2

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

mil m (plural miled)

1. (rare) animal

   Synonyms: aneval, loen

Mutation

  Mutation of mil  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	mil	vil	unchanged	unchanged
plural	miled	viled	unchanged	unchanged

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -il

Numeral

Catalan cardinal numbers

<  999	1000	1001  >
Cardinal : mil     Ordinal : milè
Catalan Wikipedia article on mil

mil m or f

1. thousand

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. thousand

Further reading

• “mil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “mil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

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Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil (“thousand”).

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin mel.

Noun

mil m

1. honey

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

mil

1. mile, unit of length of varying value

Declension

Declension of mil

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mil	milen	mil	milene
genitive	mils	milens	mils	milenes

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Esperanto

Esperanto numbers ^(edit)

	1,000
	100
Cardinal: mil     Ordinal: mila     Adverbial: mile     Multiplier: milobla, milopa     Fractional: milona, milono

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mil]
• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

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Estonian

Conjunction

mil

1. Clipping of millal.
2. when

   Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Adverb

mil

1. Clipping of millel.
2. what

   Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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French

Etymology

From Latin milium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mij/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

1. (now dialectal) millet

   Synonym: millet

Further reading

• “mil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

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Galician

Galician numbers ^(edit)

	1,000
	100
Cardinal: mil     Ordinal: milésimo     Fractional: milésimo

Carro

Carro

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

1. one thousand; 1000

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• bile, milde, minle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

Noun

mil m (plural miles)

1. central piece of the Galician cart wheel
   • 1474, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), 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

   Synonyms: mión, miúl, molo

References

• “mil” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2012.
• “miil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2016.
• “mil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mil” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mil” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mil” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Gamilaraay

Noun

mil

1. eye

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Haitian Creole

Noun

mil

1. thousand
2. mile (measure of distance)

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Ido

Ido numbers ^(edit)

	1,000
	100
Cardinal: mil     Ordinal: milesma     Adverbial: milfoye     Multiplier: milopla     Fractional: milima

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto mil, French mille, Italian mille, Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

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Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /mʲɪlʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mʲɨ̞lʲ/

Noun

mil f (genitive singular meala)

1. honey

Declension

Declension of mil

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative mil Vocative a mhil Genitive meala Dative mil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an mhil Genitive na meala Dative leis an mil don mhil

Derived terms

• beach mheala (“honeybee”)
• broc meala (“ratel, honey badger”)
• ceo meala (“honey dew”)
• cíor mheala (“honeycomb”)
• criathar meala (“honeycomb”)
• cuinneog mheala (“honeycomb cell”)
• drúcht meala (“honey-dew”)
• faighin mheala (“honeycomb”)
• faireog mheala (“nectary”)
• lus na meala (“balm”)
• mí na meala (“honeymoon”)

 

Mutation

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.

Further reading

• "mil" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “mil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “mil” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “mil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 36

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese mil.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand (1000)

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Ladin

Etymology

From Latin mel, mellis.

Noun

mil ? (plural [please provide])

1. honey

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Louisiana Creole French

Louisiana Creole French cardinal numbers

<  999	1,000	1,001  >
Cardinal : mil

Etymology

From French mille (“thousand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil/

Numeral

mil

1. thousand.

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Lule

Pronoun

mil

1. you (plural)

References

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

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic مِيل‎ (mīl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

Noun

mil m (dual milejn, plural mjiel or mili)

1. mile

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Mòcheno

Etymology

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

mil f

1. mill

References

• “mil” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

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Ngiyambaa

Noun

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

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Northern Kurdish

Noun

mil ?

1. arm
2. shoulder
3. neck

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

References

• “mil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin milia, millia and Old Norse míla.

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

• nautisk mil
• sjømil

References

• “mil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• mila

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

Related terms

• milen
• milion

Further reading

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

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Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlia, plural of the numeral mīlle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

Noun

mīl f

1. mile

Declension

Declension of mil (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mīl	mīla, mīle
accusative	mīle	mīla, mīle
genitive	mīle	mīla
dative	mīle	mīlum

Descendants

• Middle English: myle, mile
  • Scots: mile
  • English: mile

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Old French

Numeral

mil

1. Alternative form of mile (“thousand”)

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish mil and Portuguese mil and Kabuverdianu mil.

Numeral

mil

1. thousand (1000)

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Portuguese

Portuguese cardinal numbers

<  999	1000	1001  >
Cardinal : mil     Ordinal : milésimo
Portuguese Wikipedia article on mil

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ˈmiw/, [ˈmiʊ̯]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈmil/, [ˈmiɫ]

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

Adjective

mil m or f

2. one thousand; a thousand; 1000
4. (somewhat poetic) thousands of (very many)

   Synonyms: milhares de, um milhão de

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

Related terms

• milhar

Descendants

• → Kadiwéu: miili

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /mil/, /mʲil/

Noun

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

1. honey

Related terms

• mìlseachd
• mìlse
• milis
• meilc

Mutation

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

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “mil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Slovene

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /míːl/

Adjective

mȋl (comparative milȇjši, superlative nȁjmilȇjši)

1. kind
2. dear

Inflection

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	míl	míla	mílo
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	míl ind míli def	míla	mílo
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	mílo	mílo
genitive	mílega	míle	mílega
dative	mílemu	míli	mílemu
locative	mílem	míli	mílem
instrumental	mílim	mílo	mílim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	míla	míli	míli
accusative	míla	míli	míli
genitive	mílih	mílih	mílih
dative	mílima	mílima	mílima
locative	mílih	mílih	mílih
instrumental	mílima	mílima	mílima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	míli	míle	míla
accusative	míle	míle	míla
genitive	mílih	mílih	mílih
dative	mílim	mílim	mílim
locative	mílih	mílih	mílih
instrumental	mílimi	mílimi	mílimi

Further reading

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

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Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

	1,000
	100[a], [b]
Cardinal: mil     Ordinal: milésimo     Fractional: milésimo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]

• Audio (Colombia)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -il

Numeral

mil (plural miles)

1. thousand

Usage notes

• In definite numbers, the plural miles is never used:

dos mil pesos – "two thousand pesos" ($2,000)

cien mil pesos – "a hundred thousand pesos" ($100,000)

• Miles is only used in the indefinite sense:

miles de pesos – "thousands of pesos"

Derived terms

• a las mil maravillas
• a mil por hora
• diez mil
• las mil
• mil gracias
• mil leches
• mil millones

Related terms

• millar
• milenio

Descendants

• → Navajo: mííl
• → Taos: míl, mílą

Further reading

• “mil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

mil c

1. (after 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters

   Synonyms: nymil, myriameter

2. (between 1699 and 1889) Unit of length, equal to 10,688.54 meters

   Synonym: landmil

Declension

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

Anagrams

• lim

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Tatar

Noun

mil

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

Declension

    declension of mil

Nominative	mil
Genitive	milnıñ
Dative	milga
Accusative	milnı
Locative	milda
Ablative	mildan

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmil/

Noun

mil (definite accusative mili, plural miller)

1. mile (measure of length)

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Volapük

Numeral

mil

1. thousand

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

Etymology 1

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

mil m (plural milod)

1. animal, beast, creature
2. animal not usually consumed by man

Derived terms

• carfil m (“working beast, dray horse, clumsy animal, monster”)
• cnofil m (“rodent”)
• milyn (diminutive)

Etymology 2

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

Numeral

mil f (plural miloedd)

1. thousand

Related terms

• mil blynyddoedd (“millennium”)

Mutation

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

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

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Wiradhuri

Alternative forms

• mill

Noun

mil

1. (anatomy) eye

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Yagara

Noun

mil

1. eye

References

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Yugara Everyday Words.

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Yapese

Verb

mil

1. to run