The story
- Old French · derived frommil“millet”
- Dutch · derived frommilie“millet, maize”
- Afrikaans · borrowed frommielie
- English todaymealie
Borrowed from Afrikaans mielie, from obsolete Dutch milie (“millet, maize”), from Old French mil (“millet”).
Words from the same roots
Afrikaansmielie all →
mielie
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.