Mell vs Imell - What's the difference?
mell | imell |
(archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
*c. 1495 , (John Skelton), "Vppon a deedman's hed":
*:For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell .
* 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 32,
(obsolete) honey
* Warner
As a verb mell
is to speak; converse; tell; say.As a noun mell
is discourse; conversation.As an adverb imell is
in the middle; between.As a preposition imell is
amid; among.mell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) melen, .Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mellen, from (etyl) meller, , (l).Verb
(en verb)- “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”
Etymology 3
See mellifluous.Noun
(-)- Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell , nor gall.