mellyon

Cornish

Etymology

Cognate with Breton melchon and Welsh meillion.

Noun

mellyon f (singulative mellyonen)

1. (collective) clovers
2. (collective) violets

Derived terms

• mellyon an wyrghes (“field rocket, yellow rocket”)
• mellyon blewek (“harefoot clovers”)
• mellyon gwynn (“dutch clovers, white clovers”)
• mellyon hoppys (“hop clovers”)
• mellyon rudh (“red clovers”)
• mellyonen beder del (“four-leaf clover”)

Mutation

Mutation of mellyon

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
mellyon	vellyon	unchanged	unchanged	fellyon	vellyon

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.