mele - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Hawaiian mele.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪleɪ

mele (plural mele or meles)

1. A chant in Polynesia, especially Hawaii, typically in praise of a leader or to commemorate some significant event. [from 19th c.]

   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 49:

     Lili‘u set to work assisting Fornander by translating mele and legends for him.

Variant forms.

mele (plural meles)

1. Alternative form of mell

mele (third-person singular simple present meles, present participle meling, simple past and past participle meled)

1. Alternative form of mell

• leme, Emel, Elem, elem., elem, LEEM

mele

1. to fly

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

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

mele

1. honey

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛlɛ]

mele

1. third-person singular present of mlít

From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

• IPA^(key): /meːlə/, [ˈme̝ːlə]

mele (imperative mel, infinitive at mele, present tense meler, past tense melede, perfect tense har melet)

1. flour (to apply flour to something)

mēlē

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴

• IPA^(key): /méː.léː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [méː.léː]

mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)

1. loss of pigmentation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.le/, [ˈmɛ.lɛ]

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele (compare with Maori umere).^[1][2]

mele

1. chant, song, poem

• May take either ke (for etymological reasons) or ka, however, ke is more common.

• ʻahamele (“concert”)

mele

1. (transitive) to sing, chant
2. (stative) to be merry

Derived from meli (“honey”)? (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mele

1. (stative) to be yellow

• melemele (“yellow”)

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986

mele f

1. plural of mela

mēle

1. ablative singular of mēlēs

• “mele”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From melis (“liar”) +‎ -e (“fem.”).

mele f (5th declension, masculine form: melis)

1. (female) liar, deceiver (someone who is tells lies, who deceives others)

   nekaunīga mele ― shameless (female) liar

• melīgs, melīgums
• melot

From Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

• meale, meele, melow

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛːl(ə)/, /ˈmæːl(ə)/

mele (uncountable)

1. Flour, especially that of wheat.
2. The meal of wheat or other grains.

• otemele

• English: meal
• Scots: meil, mele
• Yola: mele, mell

• “mēle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mele

1. Alternative form of medle

mele

1. Alternative form of mylne

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

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛːlə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈmeːlə]

mele m (uncountable)

1. honey

• 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
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “mèle”, in Schedario Napoletano

• mjøle

From mel (“flour”).

• IPA^(key): /¹meːlə/
• Rhymes: -¹eːlə

mele (imperative mel, present tense meler, passive meles, simple past mela or melet or melte, past participle mela or melet or melt, present participle melende)

1. to flour (to apply flour to something)

• meling

• “mele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mele” in The Ordnett Dictionary

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɛli
• Homophone: mel (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: me‧le

mele

1. inflection of melar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.le/
• Rhymes: -ele
• Hyphenation: me‧le

mele

1. inflection of meu:
   1. feminine/neuter plural
   2. genitive/dative feminine singular

• meli (Campidanese)

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

mele m (plural meles)

1. honey

• 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

mele (Cyrillic spelling меле)

1. feminine plural active past participle of mesti

• IPA^(key): /miːɫ/
• Homophones: meale, mile, moile

From Middle English mele (“flour”), from Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

• mell

mele

1. meal (coarse flour)

• ameal

mele

1. Alternative form of meale (“feast, dinner”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56 & 61

Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *madaxa. Cognate to Persian ملخ (malax), Ossetian мӕты́х (mætýx)

mele

1. (zoology) grasshopper, locust