Where does “mel” come from?

mel (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European mélit — honey.

mel (Latin): honey; sweetness, pleasantness; darling, sweet,...

Definitions

  1. honey; sweetness, pleasantness; darling, sweet,...

Ancestry of “mel”, step by step

mel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European mélit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanmélithoney

via Latin loquēns

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinloquēnsspeaking, talking

Words derived from “mel”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mélit →