meule

From Old French mole, muele, from Latin mola, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).

• IPA^(key): /møl/

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meule f (plural meules)

1. grindstone
2. millstone
3. round (of cheese)
4. haystack, stack

• meunier
• molaire
• moudre
• moulin

• “meule” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• émule, émulé

From Middle Dutch mōlen, muelen, from Old Dutch mulin, from Latin molīna.

meule f

1. mill

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
• Dutch influence. A better term to use is meuler.
• meuleske also exists.
• Derives from meulewaers → millwards

From Old French mole, muele, from Latin mola.

meule f (plural meules)

1. (Jersey) whetstone wheel

• moudre