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-meal

suffix
/miːl/

Etymology

From Middle English -mele, from Old English -mǣlum (“at times”), from Proto-Germanic *mēlamiz, instrumental case of Proto-Germanic *mēlą (“measure; time”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian -moal, Dutch -maal, German Low German -maal, German -mal. More at meal.

  1. derived from *mēlą✻ — “measure; time”
  2. inherited from *mēlamiz✻
  3. inherited from -mǣlum — “at times”
  4. inherited from -mele

Definitions

  1. Used to denote a fixed number, measure, or amount at a time.

    • wordmeal (“one word at a time, word by word”)

  2. Denotes a powder made of ground cereal.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -meal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA