μύλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *mólā, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). Doublet of μῠ́λος (múlos). Cognate with Latin mola, English meal, maelstrom.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

μῠ́λη • (múlē) f (genitive μῠ́λης); first declension

  1. A mill, a hand-mill turned by women.
  2. A nether millstone.
  3. A kneepan.
  4. A hard formation in a woman's womb.
  5. (in the plural) Molars.
  6. Synonym of μῶλῠ (môlu).

Inflection
First declension of ἡ μῠ́λη; τῆς μῠ́λης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ μῠ́λη
hē múlē		 τὼ μῠ́λᾱ
tṑ múlā		 αἱ μῠ́λαι
hai múlai
Genitive τῆς μῠ́λης
tês múlēs		 τοῖν μῠ́λαιν
toîn múlain		 τῶν μῠλῶν
tôn mulôn
Dative τῇ μῠ́λῃ
têi múlēi		 τοῖν μῠ́λαιν
toîn múlain		 ταῖς μῠ́λαις
taîs múlais
Accusative τὴν μῠ́λην
tḕn múlēn		 τὼ μῠ́λᾱ
tṑ múlā		 τᾱ̀ς μῠ́λᾱς
tā̀s múlās
Vocative μῠ́λη
múlē		 μῠ́λᾱ
múlā		 μῠ́λαι
múlai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • μῠλαῖος (mulaîos)
  • μῠλεργᾰ́της (mulergátēs)
  • μῠλεύς (muleús)
  • μῠληβόρος (mulēbóros)
  • μῠληθρῐ́ς (mulēthrís)
  • μῠλήκορον (mulḗkoron)
  • μῠλήφᾰτος (mulḗphatos)
  • μῠ́λλω (múllō)
  • μῠλόδους (mulódous)
  • μῠλοειδής (muloeidḗs)
  • μῠλόεις (mulóeis)
  • μῠλοεργής (muloergḗs)
  • μῠ́λοικος (múloikos)
  • μῠλοκόπος (mulokópos)
  • μῠλουργός (mulourgós)
  • μῠλωθρός (mulōthrós)
  • μῠλών (mulṓn)
  • μῠλωνᾰ́ρχης (mulōnárkhēs)
  • μῠ́λᾰξ (múlax)
  • μῠλᾰ́ρῐον (mulárion)
  • μῠλῐκός (mulikós)
  • μῠ́λῐνος (múlinos)
  • μῠλῐᾰ́ω (muliáō)
  • μῠλῐ́ᾱς (mulíās)
  • χειρομῠ́λη (kheiromúlē)
  • ῠ̔δρομῠ́λη (hudromúlē)

Descendants

References
  • “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “μύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “μύλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • μύλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • μύλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • μύλη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • mill idem, page 529.
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