ramel

From Arabic رَمْل‎ (raml, “sand”).

ramel m (plural ramliet)

1. sand
   • (Job 29:18, King James Version)

     Jien għedt: 'Fil-bejta tiegħi mmut wara jiem kotrana daqs ir-ramel

     Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

From Vulgar Latin *ramellus, from Latin ramus.

ramel m (oblique plural rameaus or rameax or ramiaus or ramiax or ramels, nominative singular rameaus or rameax or ramiaus or ramiax or ramels, nominative plural ramel)

1. small branch

• raim

• French: rameau
• Walloon: ramxhyî

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (ramel, supplement)

From Vulgar Latin *ramellus, from Latin ramus.

ramel m (oblique plural ramels, nominative singular ramels, nominative plural ramel)

1. small branch

• ram

• Occitan: ramèl

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “ramus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 100, page 40