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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *mólā, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Doublet of μῠ́λος (múlos). Cognate with Latin mola, English meal, maelstrom.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mý.lɛː/ → /ˈmy.li/ → /ˈmi.li/
Noun
μῠ́λη • (múlē) f (genitive μῠ́λης); first declension
- A mill, a hand-mill turned by women.
- A nether millstone.
- A kneepan.
- A hard formation in a woman's womb.
- (in the plural) Molars.
- Synonym of μῶλῠ (môlu).
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References
- “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μύλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μύλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μύλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- μύλη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.