meel

From Old Dutch *melo, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

• Rhymes: -eːl

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meel n (uncountable)

1. flour, farina, meal

• bakmeel

• Afrikaans: meel

• leem

From Proto-Finnic *meeli, From Proto-Finno-Permic *mäle. Cognates include Finnish mieli, Votic meeli, Northern Sami miella, Moksha мяль (mjalʹ) and Komi-Zyrian мыл (myl).

meel (genitive meele, partitive meelt)

1. sense

   Viis meelt.

   The five senses.

2. emotion, feeling

   Mul on hea meel, et ma sinuga kohtusin.

   I'm glad that I met you. (lit. "I have a good feeling that I met you")

3. opinion, idea

   Me oleme samal meelel.

   We have the same opinion.

4. (generally with järgi, järele) wish, desire

   See asi pole mulle meele järgi.

   This thing isn't to my desire. (i.e "I don't like this")

5. (mostly in the locative cases) memory

   Mulle ei jää asjad meelde.

   I don't remember things. (lit. "Things don't stay into my memory.")

   Mul läks meelest ära.

   I forgot. (lit. "It went from my memory")

6. (colloquial) mind, intelligence, smarts

   Viin võtab meele meeste peast.

   Vodka takes the mind out of men.

All senses except for "sense" and "mind" are mostly used in a large number of various fixed phrases.

meel

1. mind

meel ?

1. place

• IPA^(key): [mèːɽ]

  Rhymes: -èːɽ

From Old Norse mæla, from Proto-Germanic *maþlijaną.

meel

1. murmur dissatisfied

From Old Norse merðr, merð, whence also Norwegian merd, Finnish merta and Swedish mjärde.

meel n (definite singular mele)

1. (fishing) part of the fish trap, wherein the fish are trapped
2. sound, strait

• melbann (“the band that causes the constriction”)