meel
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Middle Dutch mēle, Old Dutch *melo, Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: meel
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch mēle, Old Dutch *melo, Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːl/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: meel
- Rhymes: -eːl
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “meel” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Anagrams
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *meeli, From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mäľ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeːl/, [ˈmeːl]
- Hyphenation: meel
Noun
meel (genitive meele, partitive meelt)
- sense
- Viis meelt.
- The five senses.
- emotion, feeling
- Mul on hea meel, et ma sinuga kohtusin.
- I'm glad that I met you. (lit. "I have a good feeling that I met you")
- opinion, idea
- Me oleme samal meelel.
- We have the same opinion.
- (generally with järgi, järele) wish, desire
- See asi pole mulle meele järgi.
- This thing isn't to my desire. (i.e "I don't like this")
- (mostly in the locative cases) memory
- Mulle ei jää asjad meelde.
- I don't remember things. (lit. "Things don't stay into my memory.")
- Mul läks meelest ära.
- I forgot. (lit. "It went from my memory")
- (colloquial) mind, intelligence, smarts
- Viin võtab meele meeste peast.
- Vodka takes the mind out of men.
Usage notes
All senses except for "sense" and "mind" are mostly used in a large number of various fixed phrases.
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeːl/, [ˈmeːl]
- Hyphenation: meel
Further reading
- meel in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
- M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “meel”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)
- meel in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
- meel in Sõnaveeb
Ingrian
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈmeːl/, [ˈmeːlʲ]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmeːl/, [ˈme̝ːl]
- Rhymes: -eːl
- Hyphenation: meel
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈme.elːæ/, [ˈme̞.e̞lʲː]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈme.el/, [ˈme̞.e̞l]
- Rhymes: -e.elː, -e.el
- Hyphenation: me‧el