mēlo-, smēlo-

mēlo-, smēlo-:     mēlo-, smēlo-

    English meaning: small animal

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “kleineres Tier”

    Material: Gk. μῆλον n. ‘small cattle, sheep”; O.Ir. mīl n. “(small) animal”, Welsh mil, O.Corn. Bret. mil “animal”; Gmc. in müla (Lex Salica), Dutch maal “young cow”, aGmc. Μηλί-βοκον ὄρος “the resin”; changing through ablaut Arm. mal ‘sheep, aries, ram”. Da ‘small cattle” eine old Substantivierung eines adj. the meaning ‘small” sein kann, one compares further O.Bulg. malъ (*mōlo-) ‘small, little” (whereof Clr. mal” f. collective “young sheep”, etc.), Lat. malus “evil, bad” (as small”), Osc. mallom, mallud “malum” (with expressive ll?); with anl.s- Goth. smals (*smǝ-lo-), O.H.G. O.S. smal, O.E. smæl ‘small, little, narrow, tight, slim, slender, thin “, O.Ice. smale n. ‘small animal”, O.H.G. smala-nōz, smalaz fihu, M.H.G. smal-nōz, smal-vihe “ds., Schmaltier”, M.H.G. smal-hirte “herdsman, shepherd for small cattle”. Maybe Alb. *maal, müll “longing, missing, suffering (of love)” [common Alb. shift li, lu > ll ] probably from the same root as Dutch maal “young cow” as ‘small and lovely animal, human”.

    References: WP. II 296, WH. II 20.

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μήλον — (I) το (ΑΜ μῆλον, Α δωρ. και αιολ. τ. μᾱλον) βλ. μήλο. (II) μῆλον, βοιωτ. τ. μεῑλον, τὸ (Α) 1. πρόβατο ή αίγα («μὴ πού τις ἀτασθαλίῃσι κατιῇσιν ἢ βοῡν ἠέ τι μῆλον ἀποκτάνῃ», Ομ. Οδ.) 2. ταύρος 3. στον πληθ. α) αιγοπρόβατα β) ποίμνιο γ) αγέλη ζώων … Dictionary of Greek

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