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Mel obscure origin. The derivation from the root mal, ‘to grind,’ to which is allied, does not give a suitable sense. βλίτον (for *μλίτον), ‘orache,’ should rather be compared with the word.  ,, ‘to mention, notify, announce,’ from mëlden, ‘to inform against, betray, announce, show, name’;   mëldôn,  mëldôn,  mëldian, ‘to inform against, betray’; a West   simply, meaning ‘to betray,’ to which other senses have been given in   *milþôn points to a  root *melþ, ‘to betray’; an  pre- *melt has not yet been authenticated. ,, ‘giving milk, milch,’ from the  mële, mëlch,  mëlch ( to  mëlc), ;   mjolkr, milkr,  milche,  milch,  ( *mylče is wanting); a verbal  from. ,, from the  mëlken, mëlchen,  mëlchan, ‘to milk’;   melken,  mëlcan (wanting in , in which to milk is used);  mjalta, and also mjalter, ‘milking,’ mjaltr, ‘milch,’ but also from mjolk, ‘milk,’ mjolka, ‘to milk,’ and mjolkr, ‘milch’;  *milkan is by chance not recorded. The root melk is derived from the Aryan melg, which occurs with the same meaning in the West Aryan languages;   mulgere,  ἀμέλγει,  mlěsti ( mlŭzą),  mìlsti ( mélžu). In the East Aryan languages the corresponding root appears with an older signification, ‘to wipe or rub off’ ( mârj, mṛj, Zend marez). is one of the characteristic words which point to a closer connection between the West Aryans compared with the East Aryans;  and. See also, , and.  ,, ‘poltroon,’ only. A derivative of late mamme, memme,, ‘woman's breast’;  ‘effeminate being, effeminate man.’   ,, ‘crowd, multitude, mass,’ from męnege,  męnigî, managî, , ‘multiplicity, great number, crowd’; an abstract from  manag, ‘much’;  managei, ,  męnigo, ‘multiplicity.’ Originally it was not connected with the following word, but in modern times it may be dimly thought to be akin to it.  ,, ‘to mingle, mix, blend,’ from  męngen, ‘to mix, mingle,’ , introduced from  and ; in , męngan occurs once as a  word (in Isidore);  męngian,  mengen,  męngan,  mengen, ‘to mix’ (whence  to mingle);  *maggjan is wanting. Allied to gimang,  gemong, ‘mingling, commixtio, company, troop’;  on gemǫng,  among, so too  an gimange. From these may be deduced a West root mang, ‘to mix,’ which, however, is unknown to  and. It has been connected with hardly sufficient reason, with the root mik, ‘to mix’ (see ), which appears in most of the Aryan languages; it is more probably allied to mìnkau, mìnkyti, ‘to knead,’ mìnklas, ‘dough’ ( mękŭkŭ, ‘soft,’ mąka, ‘meal’). In that case would be traced to a pre- root meng, ‘to knead.’  ,, ‘vermilion,’ from the  mênig, minig, late  minig, n,; based on  minium, ‘vermilion.’   , and, from the   męnsch, męnsche,  and , ‘man, person, fellow,’  męnnisco, mannisco, ;   męnnisco,  mensch, ‘person.’ Simply a West  form,  an  used as a , hence ‘humanus’ for ‘homo.’ The  on which it is based is derived with the suffix iska  from mann-, ‘homo’;  mannisks,  mennskr, , , and  męnnisc, ‘humanus, human’ ( further  męnnesc, ‘humanity’);  manušýa as an  ‘human,’ and as   ‘man,’ with  mánu, mánus-, ‘man’ (see further under ). — in the  gender appears even in, and was used till the 17th  without any contemptuous meaning; the  was generally applied to female servants, but that signification became obsolete in the last , and a moral sense was attached to the word.   ,, ‘marl,’ from the  męrgel,  męrgil, ; from  margila, with the primary form marga, which is recorded by Pliny as a  word;   marg,  marl. From the same source the  words are derived —  marne (from  marle),  and  marga.  ,, ‘to emaciate, enervate,’ only; derived with the