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mele (plural mele or meles)
- 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)
- Alternative form of mell
mele (third-person singular simple present meles, present participle meling, simple past and past participle meled)
- Alternative form of mell
mele
- 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
mele
From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
mele (imperative mel, infinitive at mele, present tense meler, past tense melede, perfect tense har melet)
- flour (to apply flour to something)
mēlē
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴
mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)
- loss of pigmentation
From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele (compare with Maori umere).[1][2]
mele
- ʻahamele (“concert”)
mele
- (transitive) to sing, chant
- (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
- melemele (“yellow”)
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986
mele f
mēle
- “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)
- (female) liar, deceiver (someone who is tells lies, who deceives others)
- nekaunīga mele ― shameless (female) liar
Declension of mele (5th declension)
From Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
mele (uncountable)
- “mēle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
mele
- Alternative form of medle
mele
- Alternative form of mylne
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
mele m (uncountable)
- 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
From mel (“flour”).
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)
- to flour (to apply flour to something)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
mele
- inflection of melar:
mele
From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.
mele m (plural meles)
- 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)
From Middle English mele (“flour”), from Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
mele
- meal (coarse flour)
mele
- 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)
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