meel
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch meel, from Middle Dutch mēle, Old Dutch *melo, Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: meel
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch mēle, Old Dutch *melo, Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːl/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: meel
- Rhymes: -eːl
Derived terms
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *meeli, From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mjalʹ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).
Noun
meel (genitive meele, partitive meelt)
- sense
- Viis meelt.
- The five senses.
- emotion, feeling
- Mul on hea meel, et ma sinuga kohtusin.
- I'm glad that I met you. (lit. "I have a good feeling that I met you")
- opinion, idea
- Me oleme samal meelel.
- We have the same opinion.
- (generally with järgi, järele) wish, desire
- See asi pole mulle meele järgi.
- This thing isn't to my desire. (i.e "I don't like this")
- (mostly in the locative cases) memory
- Mulle ei jää asjad meelde.
- I don't remember things. (lit. "Things don't stay into my memory.")
- Mul läks meelest ära.
- I forgot. (lit. "It went from my memory")
- (colloquial) mind, intelligence, smarts
- Viin võtab meele meeste peast.
- Vodka takes the mind out of men.
Usage notes
All senses except for "sense" and "mind" are mostly used in a large number of various fixed phrases.
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | meel | meeled |
| accusative | meele | meeled |
| genitive | meele | meelte |
| partitive | meelt | meeli |
| illative | meelde meelesse |
meeltesse meelisse |
| inessive | meeles | meeltes meelis |
| elative | meelest | meeltest meelist |
| allative | meelele | meeltele meelile |
| adessive | meelel | meeltel meelil |
| ablative | meelelt | meeltelt meelilt |
| translative | meeleks | meelteks meeliks |
| terminative | meeleni | meelteni |
| essive | meelena | meeltena |
| abessive | meeleta | meelteta |
| comitative | meelega | meeltega |
Ingrian
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈmeːl/, [ˈmeːlʲ]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmeːl/, [ˈme̝ːl]
- Rhymes: -eːl
- Hyphenation: meel
Declension
| Declension of meel (type 5/keeli, no gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | meel | meelet |
| genitive | meelen | meeliin, meelilöin |
| partitive | meeltä, meelt | meeliä, meelilöjä |
| illative | meelee | meelii, meelilöihe |
| inessive | meelees | meeliis, meelilöis |
| elative | meelest | meelist, meelilöist |
| allative | meelelle | meelille, meelilöille |
| adessive | meeleel | meeliil, meelilöil |
| ablative | meelelt | meelilt, meelilöilt |
| translative | meeleks | meeliks, meelilöiks |
| essive | meelennä, meeleen | meelinnä, meelilöinnä, meeliin, meelilöin |
| exessive1) | meelent | meelint, meelilöint |
| 1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. | ||
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈme.elːæ/, [ˈme̞.e̞lʲː]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈme.el/, [ˈme̞.e̞l]
- Rhymes: -e.elːæ, -e.el
- Hyphenation: me‧el
Somali
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mèːɽ]
- Rhymes: -èːɽ
Etymology 1
From Old Norse mæla, from Proto-Germanic *maþlijaną.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse merðr, merð, whence also Norwegian merd, Finnish merta and Swedish mjärde, possibly from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to plait, weave, bind”). See also Proto-Slavic *merža (“net”) and Ancient Greek μέρμις (mérmis, “rope, cord”), though these connections are far from certain.[1]
Noun
meel n (definite singular mele)
Derived terms
- melbann (“the band that causes the constriction”)
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2084