meilid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *meleti, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-.

Verb

meilid

to grind, to crush
to sharpen

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants

Irish: meil
Scottish Gaelic: meil

Further reading

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “meilid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 576

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