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“En wel voornaamelyk waaren de Voorouders gewoon, naa het ophouden, en afleggen van vyandschap, en alle verschillen, hunne verzoening, vereeniging, en vernieuwing van vrindschap te betuigen met het voorbedagtelyk aanregten van een byzonderen Maaltyd, het Maal der Verzoeninge, of Verzoen-maal, en by verkorting Zoen-maal genaamd.”
Cognate with compare Old English mæl, Old Norse mál(“ornament (on a sword)”), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌻(mēl, “writing, scripture”), Welsh melyn(“yellow”), Lithuanian mė́las(“black”), Ancient Greek μέλας(mélas, “dark-colored, black”).