- meall
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a lump, hill, Irish meall, lump, knob, heap, Early Irish mell, Breton mell, joint, knot, knuckle, Gaulish Mello-dunum (?), now Melun: *mello-, from *melno-; Old Slavonic iz-molêti, just out, proturberate (Bez. with query); *ml$$.so; cf. Greek $$Gmélos, limb, part.IIdeceive, entice, Irish meallaim, Middle Irish mellaim, deceive, Early Irish mell, error: melsô (Stokes), root mel, mal, bad; Latin malus; Lithuanian mìlyti, mistake, mélas, lie; Greek $$Gméleos, useless; Armen. me $$Gl, peccatum. Old Irish meld, pleasant (?), Greek $$Ga$$'malós, root mela, grind.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.