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Old Irish
Etymology
From a denominal verb from Proto-Celtic *mellos (“destruction; confusion”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“false, bad”). Related to mell (“destruction”).
Pronunciation
Verb
millid
- to ruin, to spoil, to destroy
Inflection
Simple, class A II present, s preterite, a subjunctive
Descendants
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), chapter MILLID, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mello-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 263–264