Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/melu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *melwą.

*melu n

1. ground corn, meal, flour

• Old English: melu, melo, meolo
  • Middle English: mele, meale, meele, melow
    • English: meal
    • Scots: meil, mele
    • Yola: mele, mell
• Old Frisian: mele
  • North Frisian: meel, mal
  • Saterland Frisian: Meel
  • West Frisian: moal
• Old Saxon: melo
  • Middle Low German: mēle, mel
    • Dutch Low Saxon: mael
    • German Low German: Mehl
• Old Dutch: *melo
  • Middle Dutch: mēle, meel
    • Dutch: meel
      • Afrikaans: meel
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: meli
      • Negerhollands: meel, mil
      • → Lokono: meli
    • Limburgish: mael
• Old High German: melo
  • Middle High German: mël
    • Alemannic German: Mël, Mèhl
    • Bavarian: Mej, Möö
    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Meel

      Luxembourgish: Miel

    • German: Mehl
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Mehl

    • Vilamovian: maoł
    • Yiddish: מעל (mel)