mylne

See also: Mylne

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmiln(ə)/, /ˈmil(ə)/, /ˈmɛl-/, /ˈmul-/

Noun

mylne (plural mylnes)

  1. A mill; a grinding apparatus or a building housing one:
    1. (rare) A fulling mill (device for fulling)
    2. (rare) A quern or handmill
  2. (rare) A kind of siege engine.

Descendants

  • English: mill
    • Sranan Tongo: miri
    • Hindi: मिल (mil)
  • Scots: mill, mull
  • Yola: mile

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • mylna (pre-2012 or dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse mylna, through Old Saxon from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (mill), a borrowing from Late Latin molina (millstone).

Noun

mylne f (definite singular mylna, indefinite plural mylner, definite plural mylnene)

  1. a mill, millstone, grinder
  2. a mill (builing)
  3. a kind of boardgame

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • knusemylne
  • mylnar
  • mylnebruk
  • mylnedam
  • mylnehjul
  • mylnespel
  • mylnestein
  • papirmylne
  • tredemylne
  • trømylne
  • valsemylne
  • vindmylne

References

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɨl.nɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɨlnɛ
  • Syllabification: myl‧ne

Adjective

mylne

  1. inflection of mylny:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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