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Where does “meal” come from?

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

meal (Romansch): honey

Definitions

  1. honey

Ancestry of “meal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmelhoney; sweetness, pleasantness; darling, sweet,...
2Proto-Indo-Europeanmélithoney
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