-meal

Pronunciation

• IPA: /miːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

From Middle English -mele, from Old English -mǣlum ("at times"), from mǣlum (""), dative plural of mǣl ("a time"). More at meal.

Full definition of -meal

Suffix

1. (rare or no longer productive) Used to denote a fixed number, measure, or amount at a time.wordmeal ("one word at a time, word by word")

Derived terms

• bitmeal
• dropmeal
• flockmeal
• heapmeal
• leafmeal
• littlemeal
• pagemeal
• piecemeal
• stepmeal
• stoundmeal
• thousandmeal
• whilemeal
• wordmeal

From Middle English mele, from Old English melu ("meal, flour"), from Proto-Germanic *melwÄ… ("meal, flour"), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *mol(w)É™- ("to grind, mill"). More at meal.

Suffix

1. Denotes a powder made of ground cereal.

Derived terms

• cornmeal
• oatmeal
• peasemeal