milwell

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English milwell (amid many other forms), from Anglo-Norman meluel (amid other forms) and Old French moluel, probably from moruel, from Old Breton mor (“sea”) + Old French lus and luz (“pike, [as sea-luce] hake”) + -el (diminutive suffix).[1]

Noun

milwell (plural milwells)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal or historical) The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua).

References
  1. Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "milwell, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2002.

Middle English

Alternative forms
  • melewel, melewell, mellewelle
  • meluel, melvel, melwel
  • milewel, milewell, millevell; millewell
  • miluel, milvel, milwel, milwell, milwelle
  • mollewelle
  • mulewel, mulewell, muluwelle
  • muluel, mulvel, mulvelle, mulwel, mulwell, mulwelle, mulwyl
  • myllewell, myllewelle
  • myllwell, myluel, mylwel, mylwell
  • milwyn, myllwyn

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman; see the English section above.

Noun

milwell

  1. milwell: the Atlantic cod

Derived terms
  • mulwellfyche

Descendants
  • English: milwell
  • Latin: melewellus, miluuellus, milvellus, milwellus, mulewellus, muluwellus, mulvellus, mulwellus
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