Mell

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mÉ›l/

From Middle English melen, mælen, from Old English mǣlan ("to speak, talk"), from Old English mǣl ("speech, talk, conversation; dispute, contest, battle") and Old English māl ("suit, case, action, terms, agreement, covenanted pay"), both from Proto-Germanic *mahlą ("meeting, congress, speech"), alteration of *maþlą ("meeting, congress, speech"), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mad-, *mōd- ("to meet, encounter"). Cognate with Scots mele ("to speak, converse, tell"), Danish mæle ("to speak, utter"), Icelandic mæla ("to speak, say"), Old High German mahalōn ("to charge, accuse, proscecute"), German vermählen ("to wed, marry").

Alternative forms

• mele

Full definition of mell

Verb

1. (UK dialectal, transitive) To speak; converse; tell; say.

Noun

1. (UK dialectal) Discourse; conversation.

From Middle English mellen, from Old French meller, mesler ("to mix, mingle"). Compare mêlée, meddle.

Verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
• c. 1495, John Skelton, "Vppon a deedman's hed":For wher so we dwell
  Deth wyll us qwell
  And with us mell.
• 1819, Sir_Walter_Scott, Ivanhoe, ch. 32,“By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”

See mellifluous.

Noun

1. (obsolete) honey----