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Where does “mill” come from?

mill (Scottish Gaelic) comes from Old Irish millid — to ruin, to spoil, to destroy.

mill (Scottish Gaelic): destroy, spoil, ruin; inflection of meall: ##...

Definitions

  1. destroy, spoil, ruin; inflection of meall: ##...

Ancestry of “mill”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irishmillidto ruin, to spoil, to destroy
Every word from Old Irish millid →