The story
- Latin · derived frommilia“Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces”
- Dutch · borrowed frommijl
- English todaymijl
From Dutch mijl, cognate with English mile and similarly derived from Latin milia (“Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces”) but used instead for the much longer league of about an hour's walk.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.