Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mulīnu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin molīna, variant of molīnum (“mill”).

Noun

*mulīnu f

1. mill

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mulīnu
Genitive	*mulīnā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mulīnu	*mulīnō
Accusative	*mulīnā	*mulīnā
Genitive	*mulīnā	*mulīnō
Dative	*mulīnē	*mulīnōm, *mulīnum
Instrumental	*mulīnu	*mulīnōm, *mulīnum

Alternative reconstructions

• *mulī, *mulīnā

Related terms

• *mulīnārī

Descendants

• Old English: mylen, myln
  • Middle English: mylne, mele, melle, mille, miln, milne, myle, mylene, mylle, myln, molle, mule, mulle, mulne (Southern)
    • English: mill
      • Sranan Tongo: miri
      • → Hindi: मिल (mil)
    • Scots: mill, mull
    • Yola: mile
• Old Frisian: *melene, *melne
  • Saterland Frisian: Määlne
• Old Saxon: *mulina
  • Middle Low German: möle, mölne
    • Low German: Möhl
  • → Old Norse: mylna
    • Icelandic: mylla
    • Faroese: mylna
    • Middle Norwegian: mylna, mjulna
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: mylne, mylna; (dialectal) mjune, mjone, mylle, mørne, mæln
    • Swedish: mölla
    • Danish: mølle
      • Bokmål: mølle
    • → Finnish: mylly
    • → Ingrian: mylly
    • → Kildin Sami: ме̄лл (miell)
• Old Dutch: molna
  • Middle Dutch: mōlen
    • Dutch: molen
    • Limburgish: meule
  • → Old Frisian: molne, mole
    • West Frisian: mole, mûne
• Old High German: mulīn, mulī
  • Middle High German: mül, müle
    • Alemannic German: Müli
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: müul

      Mòcheno: mil

    • Central Franconian: Möhl
      • Hunsrik: Mihl
      • Luxembourgish: Millen
    • German: Mühle
    • Pennsylvania German: Miehl
    • Yiddish: מיל (mil)
• → Proto-Slavic: *mъlinъ (see there for further descendants)