mill

See also: Mill

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mĭl, IPA(key): /mɪl/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪl
  • Homophone: mil

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *mélh₂ti
Proto-Italic *melō
Latin molō
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Latin molīnus
Late Latin molīnabor.
Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu
Old English mylen
Middle English mylne
English mill

    From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline, moulin, and blin.

    Noun

    mill (plural mills)

    1. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
      Hyponym: pepper mill
      Pepper has a stronger flavor when it is ground straight from a mill.
    2. The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
      Hyponyms: flour mill, grist mill; fulling mill, cotton mill; water mill, windmill
      My great-grandfather worked in a mill. He filled the flour sacks and then carried and loaded them.
      • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter XV, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 112:
        […] for the Townsfolk will go to thy mill, and grind their corn […] at their own good pleasure; nor can I hinder them, since they are free men.
      • 1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection And Insurance Company, page 9:
        On Sept. 9 a boiler exploded in Hanke's flouring mill, […]
      • 1965, Samuel C. Chu, Reformer in Mondern China Chang Chien, 1853-1926‎[2], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
        Under the reorganization the branch mill was designated as Dah Sun Mill No. 2. In subsequent years Chang Chien had ambitious plans for further expansion. Eventually four Dah Sun mills were established, two in Nan-t'ung and one each in Ch'ung-ming and Hai-men, although plans for the founding of mills in Ju-kao, Tung-t'ai, Yen-ch'eng, and elsewhere in Kiangsu were never realized.
      • 2026, Sandi Rosner, “Knudsen Knits: Sourcing & Milling Local Heritage-Breed Wool”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 39:
        That first batch of yarn set the pattern for Knudsen Knits: Farah seeks out local wool growers, selects fleeces, and works with small local mills to produce yarn.
    3. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
      a cider mill; a cane mill
    4. A machine for grinding and polishing.
      a lapidary mill
    6. A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
      Hypernyms: machine tool < machine
      Several machinists were busy operating the lathes, mills, and drill presses on the shop floor.
    8. A milling cutter used on such a machine.
      Hyponyms: endmill; more at Wikipedia
      After the drilling and tapping operations, we come in with a mill and do some contouring.
    9. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
      Hyponyms: paper mill, steel mill
      Once the billet gets through the 56-inch mill, it is ready for reheating.
    10. The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
      My grandfather worked in a mill. He operated machinery, did maintenance, and drove forklifts.
    11. (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
      Hyponyms: divorce mill, puppy mill, content mill
      Those shysters selling the purebreds are running quite a mill over there, eh?
      Getting the book through the editorial mill could take months.
    12. (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
      Hyponyms: diploma mill, accreditation mill, ordination mill; essay mill, paper mill
      Those shysters cranking out the "IT training certificates" are running quite a mill over there, eh?
    13. (informal) An engine.
      Under the hood is a mill that you and I can't afford — a nitrous-blown hemi with custom heads.
    14. (informal, archaic) A boxing match or fistfight.
      They were betting big on a great mill, but they didn't realize that the fix was in.
      • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
        […] he is relieved from present responsibility to the Chicken, by the absence of that game head of poultry in the country, training (at Toots's cost) for his great mill with the Larkey Boy.
      • 1902 October 1, The Sydney Sportsman, page 5, column 6:
        The mill lasted four rounds, when giddy little Ettie was declared the victress.
      • 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
        The name of the "white hope" against whom Billy was to go was sufficient to draw a fair house, and there were some there who had seen Billy in other fights and looked for a good mill.
    15. (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
      Coordinate term: die
    16. (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
      They pulled me off the main crew and had me digging in the mill.
    17. (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
      Near-synonym: country
      The geologists were responsible for keeping the work within the mill.
    18. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
      Synonym: milling
    19. (historical) A prison treadmill.
      They kept us in line by threatening to put us on the mill twice as long if we complained.
      • 1837, James Williams, A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, page 9:
        Next morning they put me on the treadmill along with the others: At first, not knowing how to dance it, I cut all my shin with the steps; they did not flog me then — […] They keep on putting her on the mill for a week, and flog her every time […]
    20. (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.[1]
      He spent some time in the mill after that escapade.
    21. (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.[1]
    22. (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
      • 1941, QST, volume 25, numbers 2–6, page 90:
        In other words, get a mill in your operating position by hook or crook and use it regularly. At the N.C.R. Radio Schools touch typing is taught at the same time code proficiency is advanced.
      • 1986, Ham Radio Magazine, volume 19, page 66:
        You can read it all right, but the pencil seems to be getting a little sluggish — better make a grab for a "mill."
    Alternative forms
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    in toponyms of Canada
    • Algoma Mills
    • Allan Mills
    • Anten Mills
    • Armstrong Mills
    • Ashby Mills
    • Balmoral Mills
    • Batemans Mills
    • Bay du Vin Mills
    • Bellamys Mill
    • Bells Mills
    • Berry Mills
    • Birge Mills
    • Brewers Mills
    • Cails Mills
    • Caledonia Mills
    • Camerons Mill
    • Cedar Mills
    • Coates Mills
    • Conns Mills
    • Conquerall Mills
    • Cooks Mills
    • Dalhousie Mills
    • Davis Mill
    • Davis Mills
    • Dawn Mills
    • Densmore Mills
    • Don Mills
    • Eden Mills
    • Edys Mills
    • Erin Mills
    • Feir Mill
    • Fords Mills
    • Fowlies Mill
    • Frasers Mills
    • German Mills
    • Goodwin Mill
    • Grays Mills
    • Grey Mills
    • Halls Mills
    • Hampshire Mills
    • Harmony Mills
    • Harrison Mills
    • Hempstock Mill
    • Herron's Mills
    • Horning's Mills
    • Imperial Mills
    • Jewetts Mills
    • Killams Mills
    • La Rue Mills
    • Links Mills
    • Liscomb Mills
    • Lockharts Mill
    • Longford Mills
    • Lords Mills
    • Lueck Mill
    • MacIntosh Mill
    • Mavis Mills
    • McKees Mills
    • McPhersons Mills
    • Mill Cove
    • Mill Creek
    • Mill Road
    • Mill Settlement
    • Mill Village
    • Mississippi Mills
    • Moiles Mills
    • Mono Mills
    • National Mills
    • New Mills
    • Newton Mills
    • Old Mill
    • Oxford Mills
    • Pelletiers Mill
    • Peters Mills
    • Rock Mills
    • Sheffield Mills
    • Steeves Mills
    • Stone Mills
    • Tay Mills
    • Teeds Mills
    • Tracey Mills
    • Vernon Mills
    • Whites Mills
    • Wiggins Mill
    • Yonge Mills
    • York Mills
    in toponyms of the United States
    • Adams Mills
    • Advance Mills
    • Allens Mills
    • Anthonies Mill
    • Armstrongs Mills
    • Arnco Mills
    • Arnold Mill
    • Atkinson Mills
    • Austins Mill
    • Aylett Mill
    • Baileys Mills
    • Baldwins Mill
    • Balls Mills
    • Banner Mills
    • Barre Mills
    • Barrs Mills
    • Bay Mills
    • Beards Mill
    • Beaver Mills
    • Becks Mill
    • Bells Mills
    • Belvidere Mills
    • Bennetts Mill
    • Blackiston Mill
    • Blairs Mills
    • Blodget Mills
    • Blue Mills
    • Bonenyville Mills
    • Bonnots Mill
    • Bowens Mill
    • Bowers Mill
    • Boylers Mill
    • Brooks Mill
    • Browns Mill
    • Browns Mills
    • Buffalo Mills
    • Bumpus Mills
    • Burlington Mills
    • Burnt Mills
    • Byrnes Mill
    • Cagle Mill
    • Caplinger Mills
    • Carpenter's Mill
    • Carrier Mills
    • Cedar Mills
    • Charter Oak Mills
    • Clark Mills
    • Clarks Mills
    • Coles Mills
    • Cones Mills
    • Cooks Mills
    • Coopers Mills
    • Crockett Mills
    • Cruise Mill
    • Cuba Mills
    • Deer's Mill
    • Delhi Mills
    • Detters Mill
    • Dixons Mills
    • Doolittle Mills
    • Duncan Mills
    • Dunn Mill
    • Dutch Mills
    • Eagle Mills
    • Eakles Mills
    • Eden Mills
    • Edna Mills
    • Ednas Mill
    • Egypt Mills
    • Eldridge Mill
    • Electric Mills
    • Elk Mills
    • Ellicott's Mills
    • Emery Mills
    • Etna Mills
    • Eureka Mill
    • Evans Mills
    • Falls Mills
    • Felts Mills
    • Fickling Mill
    • Fine Creek Mills
    • Fletcher Mill
    • Forest Mills
    • Fort Kent Mills
    • Fort Mill
    • Foster Mills
    • French Mills
    • Fuhrmans Mill
    • Gang Mills
    • Garretts Mill
    • Gates Mills
    • Gayle Mill
    • Gays Mills
    • Georges Mill
    • Georges Mills
    • Gilmore Mills
    • Glebe Mills
    • Glen Mills
    • Goods Mill
    • Gravois Mills
    • Great Mills
    • Greenfield Mills
    • Guinea Mills
    • Gulph Mills
    • Guys Mills
    • Hahns Mill
    • Hannahs Mill
    • Harrison Mills
    • Hasslers Mill
    • Heath Mills
    • Henrys Mill
    • Highland Mills
    • Holmes Mill
    • Hood's Mill
    • Hoopers Mill
    • Hoover Mill
    • Hope Mills
    • Hopewell Mill
    • Howell Mills
    • Howes Mill
    • Hudson Mills
    • Huntington Mills
    • Hurdle Mills
    • Hurricane Mills
    • Indian Mills
    • Inman Mills
    • Jasper Mills
    • Jersey Mills
    • Jones Mill
    • Kemp Mill
    • Kemps Mill
    • Kings Mills
    • Klines Mill
    • Knox Mills
    • Kremlin Mill
    • Kyles Mills
    • Lake Mill
    • Lake Mills
    • Lancaster Mill
    • Lanes Mills
    • Laniers Mill
    • Laurel Mill
    • Laurel Mills
    • Lawthorne Mill
    • Lecontes Mills
    • Lees Mill
    • Levick Mill
    • Lewis Mill
    • Liberty Mills
    • Lillard Mill
    • Linton Mills
    • Loddes Mill
    • London Mills
    • Lusby's Mill
    • Lusks Mills
    • Luthers Mills
    • Madison Mills
    • Maples Mill
    • Marion Mills
    • Marquand Mills
    • Marstons Mills
    • Martin's Mills
    • Massies Mill
    • McDonalds Mill
    • McGees Mills
    • Meyers Mill
    • Midway Mills
    • Milford Mill
    • Milford Mills
    • Mill Bridge
    • Mill Creek
    • Mill Neck
    • Mill Spring
    • Milton Mills
    • Monarch Mill
    • Monroe Mills
    • Moores Mill
    • Morse Mill
    • Moscow Mills
    • Moshers Mill
    • Motleys Mill
    • Mountain Mills
    • Muses Mills
    • Nevada Mills
    • New York Mills
    • Noser Mill
    • Oakland Mills
    • Old Mill Creek
    • Orange Mill
    • Osage Mills
    • Osceola Mills
    • Owings Mills
    • Oxford Mills
    • Parkins Mills
    • Patten Mills
    • Peola Mills
    • Pine Grove Mills
    • Pleasant Mills
    • Pond Creek Mills
    • Porter's Mills
    • Portland Mills
    • Post Mills
    • Potomac Mills
    • Potters Mills
    • Pounding Mill
    • Prices Mill
    • Pulleys Mill
    • Putneys Mill
    • Redings Mill
    • Red Oaks Mill
    • Reeds Mill
    • Reedy Mill
    • Reifs Mills
    • Repton Mills
    • Ridings Mill
    • Rinard Mills
    • Rix Mills
    • Rochester Mills
    • Rock Mills
    • Rolands Mill
    • Roses Mill
    • Ruddels Mills
    • Salisbury Mills
    • Scarlets Mill
    • Schechs Mill
    • Scioto Mills
    • Scotts Mill
    • Shack Mills
    • Shelors Mill
    • Sheppards Mill
    • Shirley Mills
    • Sirons Mill
    • Slate Mills
    • Smith Mills
    • Smiths Mill
    • Smyrna Mills
    • Sni Mills
    • Solon Mills
    • South Mills
    • Sprankle Mills
    • Spring Mill
    • Spring Mills
    • Star Mill
    • Star Mills
    • Starrs Mill
    • Steam Mill
    • Stone Quarry Mills
    • Stony Creek Mills
    • Stony Mill
    • Strodes Mills
    • Summit Mills
    • Tacketts Mill
    • Taylor Mill
    • Tisch Mills
    • Todds Mill
    • Travis Mill
    • Trenton Mills
    • Trents Mill
    • Troy Mills
    • Tunis Mills
    • Turners Mill
    • Twymans Mill
    • Union Mill
    • Union Mills
    • Vales Mills
    • Walker Mill
    • Wallace Mills
    • Walthall Mill
    • Washington Mills
    • Waterford Mills
    • Water Mill
    • Watts Mills
    • Weeks Mills
    • Weston Mills
    • White Mills
    • Wilson's Mills
    • Winnsboro Mills
    • Withers Mill
    • Woodland Mills
    • Woods Mill
    • Wye Mills
    • Wynns Mill
    • Yancey Mills
    • Yancy Mills
    • Yeakle Mill
    in toponyms of the United Kingdom
    Descendants
    • Sranan Tongo: miri
    • → Hindi: मिल (mil)
    Translations
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    Translations to be checked

    Verb

    mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

    2. (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
      to mill flour
    3. (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
    4. (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
    5. (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
      I didn't have much to do, so I just milled around the town looking at the shops.
      • 1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
        The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, while the Eaters of Flesh skirmished round its edge.
      • 2021 July 8, Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump”, in The New York Times‎[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 November 2025:
        As guests milled around them, he [Zuckerberg] described his goal of turning every person in the country with an internet connection into a Facebook user.
    6. (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
      to mill cattle
    7. (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
    8. (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction, or to circle around.
      • 1961, Tom Mead, Killers of Eden, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 9:
        ‘They’ve lanced him,’ George said with obvious relief. ‘He’s milling.’ ‘He’s what?’ the sailor asked. ‘Milling. Going round in a circle.’
    9. (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
    10. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
    11. (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
    12. (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
    13. (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
      This maize mills well.
    14. (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
    15. (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
    16. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To commit burglary.
      • 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton‎[4], volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:
        Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
      • 1818, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in The Heart of Midlothian:
        And why not?—You would think little of peaching and hanging him for this Scotch affair.—Rat me, one might have milled the Bank of England, and less noise about it.
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    Etymology 2

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *sem-
    Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-
    Proto-Indo-European *-is
    Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
    Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
    Proto-Indo-European *smih₂
    Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
    Proto-Indo-European *-lom
    Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom
    ▲
    Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
    Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂
    Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂
    Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī
    Latin mīllē
    Latin -ēsimus
    Latin mīllēsimus
    Latin mīllēsimumder.
    English mill

      Ultimately from Latin mīllēsimum. The clipping comes by way of the clipped word, millimetre.

      Noun

      Missouri mill token.

      mill (plural mills)

      2. One thousandth part.
        Synonym: millesimal
        2. One thousandth of a US dollar, one-hundredth of a dime or one-tenth of a cent.
          Alternative form: mille
          Holonyms: cent < dollar
          The U.S. has never minted a mill coin, but the Coinage Act of 1792 describes this and other subdivisions of the U.S. dollar.
        4. One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
          They predict that the rate will probably go up by several mills next year.
        6. (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
          Synonym: thou
          For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mills thick.
        8. (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
          Alternative form: mil
          Synonym: mm
          For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mills in diameter.
        9. (informal) Clipping of milliliter.
          Alternative form: mil
          Synonym: ml
      Derived terms
      Translations

      See also

      Etymology 3

      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *sem-
      Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-
      Proto-Indo-European *-is
      Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
      Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
      Proto-Indo-European *smih₂
      Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
      Proto-Indo-European *-lom
      Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom
      ▲
      Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
      Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂
      Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂
      Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī
      Latin mīlle
      Italian mille
      Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
      Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
      Latin -ōnem
      Italian -one
      Italian milionebor.
      Old French million
      Middle French millionbor.
      Middle English milioun
      English millionclip.
      English mill

        Clipping of million.

        Noun

        mill (plural mill)

        2. (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).

        Etymology 4

        (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

        Noun

        mill (plural mills)

        1. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

        Etymology 5

        Back-formation from millstone, name of a Magic: The Gathering card with this effect (first printed 1994).

        Alternative forms

        • Mill (in the sense of "a strategy")

        Verb

        mill (third-person singular simple present mills, present participle milling, simple past and past participle milled)

        1. (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
        2. (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
          • 2018 October 9, Ozzie Mejia, “Hearthstone: 4 decks to watch during the 2018 HCT Fall Championship”, in Shacknews‎[5], archived from the original on 20 February 2025:
            what happens when a Quest Rogue uses Vanish and Malygos gets milled?
        Synonyms
        Derived terms
        • self-mill

        Noun

        mill (countable and uncountable, plural mills)

        1. (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
          • 2018 October 14, Jay Castello, “Pro Hearthstone player burns key card with perfect comedic timing”, in Rock Paper Shotgun‎[6], archived from the original on 30 September 2020:
            he’s had some fairly infamous mills in other events. Back in 2017’s Spring Championships, he burned the crucial Archmage Antonidas
        2. (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
          • 2018 June 16, Wavelength, “Efficient Off-Meta Decks Spotlight”, in Fade2Karma‎[7], archived from the original on 28 November 2021:
            Kingsane [sic – meaning Kingsbane] Rogue will forever have a negative connotation attached to it because it began as a mill deck, and mill is one of the most tilt-inducing strategies in fantasy card games.
          • 2018 September 24, Collin MacGregor, “Top 10 Guilds of Ravnica Commander Cards in Magic The Gathering”, in heavy.‎[8], archived from the original on 25 September 2018:
            Great for mill, control, or even Voltron decks, Mnemonic Betrayal is a fantastic addition regardless of your strategy.
        Derived terms
        • Mill Rogue
        Translations

        References

        1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lighter, Jonathan (1972), “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎[1], volume 47, number 1/2, pages 78–79

        Further reading

        Albanian

        Etymology

        Possibly from Proto-Albanian *meila (“fastening (of a knife)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to attach, fasten”).[1]

        Noun

        mill m (plural mille, definite milli, definite plural millet)

        1. sheath

        Declension

        Declension of mill
        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative mill milli mille millet
        accusative millin
        dative milli millit milleve milleve
        ablative millesh

        References

        1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “mill”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 266

        Catalan

        Etymology

          Inherited from Latin milium.

          Pronunciation

          Noun

          mill m (plural mills)

          1. millet

          Derived terms

          Further reading

          Irish

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /mʲiːl̠ʲ/, /mʲil̠ʲ/

          Etymology 1

            From Old Irish millid (“to spoil, ruin, destroy”).[1]

            Verb

            mill (present analytic milleann, future analytic millfidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)

            1. (ambitransitive) to spoil; mar, ruin
            2. to ravish
            Conjugation
            Conjugation of mill (first conjugation – A)
            indicative singular plural direct relative autonomous
            first second third first second third
            present millim milleann tú;
            millir†             		milleann sé, sí millimid; milleann muid milleann sibh milleann siad;
            millid†             		a mhilleann; a mhilleas milltear
            past mhill mé; mhilleas mhill tú; mhillis mhill sé, sí mhilleamar; mhill muid mhill sibh; mhilleabhair mhill siad; mhilleadar a mhill milleadh
            past habitual mhillinn /
            millinn‡             		mhillteá /
            millteᇠ            		mhilleadh sé, sí /
            milleadh sé, sí‡             		mhillimis; mhilleadh muid /
            millimis‡; milleadh muid‡             		mhilleadh sibh /
            milleadh sibh‡             		mhillidís; mhilleadh siad /
            millidís‡; milleadh siad‡             		a mhilleadh mhilltí /
            milltí‡
            singular plural direct relative autonomous
            first second third first second third
            future millfidh mé;
            millfead             		millfidh tú;
            millfir†             		millfidh sé, sí millfimid;
            millfidh muid             		millfidh sibh millfidh siad;
            millfid†             		a mhillfidh; a mhillfeas millfear
            conditional mhillfinn /
            millfinn‡             		mhillfeá /
            millfeᇠ            		mhillfeadh sé, sí /
            millfeadh sé, sí‡             		mhillfimis; mhillfeadh muid /
            millfimis‡; millfeadh muid‡             		mhillfeadh sibh /
            millfeadh sibh‡             		mhillfidís; mhillfeadh siad /
            millfidís‡; millfeadh siad‡             		a mhillfeadh mhillfí /
            millfí‡
            subjunctive singular plural direct relative autonomous
            first second third first second third
            present go mille mé;
            go millead†             		go mille tú;
            go millir†             		go mille sé, sí go millimid;
            go mille muid             		go mille sibh go mille siad;
            go millid†             		— go milltear
            past dá millinn dá millteá dá milleadh sé, sí dá millimis;
            dá milleadh muid             		dá milleadh sibh dá millidís;
            dá milleadh siad             		— dá milltí
            imperative singular plural direct relative autonomous
            first second third first second third
            — millim mill milleadh sé, sí millimis milligí;
            millidh†             		millidís — milltear
            past participle millte
            verbal noun milleadh

            † archaic or dialect form
            ‡ dependent form

            Derived terms

            Etymology 2

              Noun

              mill f (genitive singular mille, nominative plural milleanna)

              1. alternative form of meill (“flabby skin”)
              2. (botany) pendant bud or flower
              Declension
              Declension of mill (second declension)
              bare forms
              singular plural
              nominative mill milleanna
              vocative a mhill a mhilleanna
              genitive mille milleanna
              dative mill milleanna
              forms with the definite article
              singular plural
              nominative an mhill na milleanna
              genitive na mille na milleanna
              dative leis an mill
              don mhill               		leis na milleanna

              Mutation

              Mutated forms of mill
              radical lenition eclipsis
              mill mhill not applicable

              Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
              All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

              References

              1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “millid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

              Further reading

              • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “millim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 743; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
              • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
              • de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “mill”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
              • “mill”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

              Manx

              Pronunciation

              • IPA(key): /milʲ/

              Etymology 1

              From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”). Cognate with Irish mill and Scottish Gaelic mill.

              Verb

              mill (past independent vill, future independent millee, verbal noun milley, past participle millit)

              1. destroy, ruin
              2. spoil, tarnish
              3. (as vision) blur
              4. disfigure
              5. corrupt
              6. mess, tumble, rustle
                Ny mill m'olt. ― Don't tumble my hair.

              Etymology 2

              From Old Irish mil, from Proto-Celtic *meli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélid. Cognate with Irish mil, Scottish Gaelic mil, Latin mel, Ancient Greek μέλι (méli). Akin to millish and blass.

              Noun

              mill f (genitive singular molley)

              1. honey

              References

              Mutation

              Mutation of mill
              radical lenition eclipsis
              mill vill unchanged

              Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
              All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

              Scottish Gaelic

              Pronunciation

              • IPA(key): /miːʎ/

              Etymology 1

              From Old Irish millid (“spoils, ruins, destroys”).

              Verb

              mill (past mhill, future millidh, verbal noun milleadh, past participle millte)

              1. destroy, spoil, ruin

              Etymology 2

              Noun

              mill m

              1. inflection of meall:
                1. genitive singular
                2. plural

              Mutation

              Mutation of mill
              radical lenition
              mill mhill

              Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
              All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

              Further reading

              • Edward Dwelly (1911), “mill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
              • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “millid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

              Wiradjuri

              Alternative forms

              Noun

              mill

              1. (anatomy) eye

              Yagara

              Noun

              mill

              1. alternative form of mil

              References

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