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See also: meļu and mēļu

melu

Inflection of melu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		melu	melut
genitive		melun	melujen
partitive		melua	meluja
illative		meluun	meluihin
		singular	plural
nominative		melu	melut
accusative	nom.	melu	melut
accusative	gen.	melun	melut
genitive		melun	melujen
partitive		melua	meluja
inessive		melussa	meluissa
elative		melusta	meluista
illative		meluun	meluihin
adessive		melulla	meluilla
ablative		melulta	meluilta
allative		melulle	meluille
essive		meluna	meluina
translative		meluksi	meluiksi
instructive		—	meluin
abessive		melutta	meluitta
comitative		—	meluineen

melu m

melu n

From Proto-Germanic *melwą, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- ‎(“grind”).

Indo-European cognates: Hittite [script needed] ‎(malla-), Ancient Greek μύλη ‎(múlē), Latin molō, Old Church Slavonic мелѭ ‎(meljǫ) (Russian мелю ‎(melju)), Lithuanian málti, Old Irish melim (Breton malaf), Tocharian A mläs-.