meel
Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *melo, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eːl
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: meel
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *meeli, From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mjalʹ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).
Noun
meel (genitive meele, partitive meelt)
- sense
- Viis meelt.
- The five senses.
- emotion, feeling
- Mul on hea meel, et ma sinuga kohtusin.
- I'm glad that I met you. (lit. "I have a good feeling that I met you")
- opinion, idea
- Me oleme samal meelel.
- We have the same opinion.
- (generally with järgi, järele) wish, desire
- See asi pole mulle meele järgi.
- This thing isn't to my desire. (i.e "I don't like this")
- (mostly in the locative cases) memory
- Mulle ei jää asjad meelde.
- I don't remember things. (lit. "Things don't stay into my memory.")
- Mul läks meelest ära.
- I forgot. (lit. "It went from my memory")
- (colloquial) mind, intelligence, smarts
- Viin võtab meele meeste peast.
- Vodka takes the mind out of men.
Usage notes
All senses except for "sense" and "mind" are mostly used in a large number of various fixed phrases.
Declension
Inflection of meel (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | meel | meeled |
accusative | meele | meeled |
genitive | meele | meelte |
partitive | meelt | meeli |
illative | meelde meelesse |
meeltesse meelisse |
inessive | meeles | meeltes meelis |
elative | meelest | meeltest meelist |
allative | meelele | meeltele meelile |
adessive | meelel | meeltel meelil |
ablative | meelelt | meeltelt meelilt |
translative | meeleks | meelteks meeliks |
terminative | meeleni | meelteni |
essive | meelena | meeltena |
abessive | meeleta | meelteta |
comitative | meelega | meeltega |
Ingrian
Somali
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mèːɽ]
- Rhymes: -èːɽ
Etymology 1
From Old Norse mæla, from Proto-Germanic *maþlijaną.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse merðr, merð, whence also Norwegian merd, Finnish merta and Swedish mjärde.
Noun
meel n (definite singular mele)
Derived terms
- melbann (“the band that causes the constriction”)
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