Etymology: < post-classical Latin melum apple, apple tree (4th cent.) < ancient Greek μῆλον (see male n.²). Compare Italian melo apple tree (1342), mela apple (1353).In form melo after post-classical Latin melo, dative of melum.

Etymology: < Hawaiian mele song, chorus.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Saxon mahlian to speak (Middle Low German mālen (rare) to take as wife), Old High German mahalen to speak, promise, take as wife (Middle High German mahalen , mehelen , mālen , mēlen to interrogate, accuse, promise, take as wife, German -mählen , only in the compound vermählen to marry, give in marriage), Old Icelandic mæla to speak, stipulate, Old Swedish mäla , mela to speak, promise (Swedish mäla (archaic)), Danish mæle to speak, Gothic maþljan to talk, hold formal discussions < a Germanic verbal derivative (a parallel formation to the base of mathel v.) < the Germanic base of Old English mæþel speech, assembly (see mallum n.). Compare mell v.²The β. forms show loss of ð before l , and compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel (compare parallel formations among the Germanic cognates; compare also mail n.¹, stalworth adj. and n.). The isolated Middle English forms medele , medle may be genuine reflexes of Old English mæðlan , meðlan , but are perhaps errors arising from confusion with meddle v. In Old English occurring chiefly in poetic texts.