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Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Melis, from French sucre mélis, from Latin saccharum melitēnse (sugar of Malta).
Noun
[edit]melis (singular definite melissen, not used in plural form)
- white sugar
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[edit]Gothic
[edit]Romanization
[edit]mēlis
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌹𐍃
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmeː.lis/, [ˈmeːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.lis/, [ˈmɛːlis]
Noun
[edit]mēlis
References
[edit]- “melis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- melis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from the same stem as Latvian meli (“lie, untruth”) (q.v.), made into a 2nd-declension masculine noun.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]melis m (2nd declension, feminine form: mele)
- (male) liar, deceiver (someone who tells lies, who deceives others)
- meļu, blēžu un krāpnieku banda ― a gang of liars, swindlers, and cheats
- atmaskot meli ― to unmask a liar
- par Rabaru teica: tas esot tāds melis, ka pašu vilku varot izmelot no meža lauka ― about Rabars they said: he is such a liar, he could even convince a wolf to come out of the woods
Declension
[edit]Declension of melis (2nd declension)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “melot”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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