μέλι

• μέλῐς (mélĭs) — erroneous

From Proto-Hellenic *méli, from Proto-Indo-European *mélit (“honey”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀕𐀪 (me-ri), Latin mel, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌸 (miliþ), and Old Armenian մեղր (mełr).^[1]

μέλῐ • (mélĭ) n (genitive μέλῐτος); third declension

1. honey
2. anything sweet

• Greek: μέλι (méli)
• Mariupol Greek: мел (mjel)
• → Hawaiian: meli^[2]
• → Rarotongan: meri^[2]
• → Tahitian: meri^[2]
• → Tongan: melie^[2]
• → Samoan: meli^[2]

• “μέλι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μέλι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μέλι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μέλι in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μέλι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μέλι”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3192 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • honey idem, page 404.
  • syrup idem, page 851.
• μέλι, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

From Ancient Greek μέλι (méli), from Proto-Indo-European *mélid.

Compare Mariupol Greek мел (mjel).

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.li/
• Homophones: μέλει (mélei), μέλη (méli), μέλλει (méllei)

μέλι • (méli) n (plural μέλια)

1. honey

• κυψέλη f (kypséli, “beehive”)
• κηρήθρα f (kiríthra, “honeycomb”)

• μέλισσα f (mélissa, “bee”)
• μελίσσι n (melíssi, “bee colony, beehive”)

• μέλι on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• μέλι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language