The story
- Old French · derived fromlus
- Proto-Brythonic · derived from*mor
- Old Breton · derived frommor“sea”
- Old French · derived frommoluel
- Anglo-Norman · derived frommeluel
- Middle English · derived frommilwell
- English todaymilwell
From Middle English milwell (amid many other forms), from Anglo-Norman meluel (amid other forms) and Old French moluel, probably from moruel, from Old Breton mor (“sea”) (from Proto-Brythonic *mor) + Old French lus and luz (“pike, [as sea-luce] hake”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with modern French morue.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchlus all →
lucelucet
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.