Mese vs Mesel - What's the difference?
mese | mesel |
To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.
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(obsolete) A leper.
(obsolete) A wretched or revolting person.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
(obsolete) Leprosy.
* 1485 , (Thomas Malory), Le Morte Darthur , Book XVII:
As a noun mese
is skin (of onion), milk-skin, film.As a verb mesel is
to tell a story ((t)) to someone ((nak)).mese
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mese, mes, .Alternative forms
* measeEtymology 2
From (etyl) mesen, of (etyl) origin. More at meek.Verb
(mes)mesel
English
Alternative forms
* mesell, myselNoun
(en noun)- Verily he suffride oure sikenesses, and he bar oure sorewis; and we arettiden him as a mysel and smytun of God and maad low.
- So hit befelle many yerys agone there happened on her a malodye, and whan she had lyene a grete whyle she felle unto a mesell , and no leche cowde remedye her [...].