milis

From Old Irish milis,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *melissos, from *meli. Akin to mil.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪlʲəʃ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɨ̞lʲəʃ/^[2]

milis (genitive singular feminine milse, plural milse, comparative milse)

1. sweet

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “milis”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 483
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “milis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “milis”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “milis”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From Proto-Celtic *melissos with a change to the i-stems, related to *meli (whence Old Irish mil).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲilʲisʲ/

milis

1. sweet
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6^c7

     Léic úait inna bíada milsi et tomil innahí-siu do·mmeil do chenél arnáp hésom con·éit détso.

     Put away from you sg the sweet foods, and consume those that your race consumes, so that it may not be he who is indulgent to you.

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	milis	milis	milis
Vocative	milis
Accusative	milis	milis
Genitive	milis	milse	milis
Dative	milis	milis	milis
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	milsi	milsi
Vocative	milsi
Accusative	milsi
Genitive	milis* milse
Dative	milsib
Notes	*not when substantivized

• Irish: milis
• Manx: millish
• Scottish Gaelic: milis

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “milis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish milis, from Proto-Celtic *melissos, from *meli. Akin to mil.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmilɪʃ/

milis (genitive singular feminine mìlse, nominative plural mìlse, comparative mìlse)

1. sweet, sugary

   cho milis ris an t-siùcar ― as sweet as sugar

   'S mìlse leam mo Mhòrag ― Sweet to me is my Mòrag (from the traditional song Mòrag à Dùn Bheagain)

   cha dèan corrag mhilis ìm ― a sweet tooth will never make butter (literally, “a sweet finger will not make butter”)

2. melodious, dulcet

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Plural
Nominative/Vocative/Dative	milis	mhilis	mìlse
Genitive	mhilis	mìlse	mìlse

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “milis”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “milis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from French milice, from Latin mīlitia, from mīles (“soldier”). Doublet of militär.

milis c

1. militia

• folkmilis
• högermilis
• milisgrupp
• milisledare
• milissoldat
• milisstyrka
• milistrupp
• vänstermilis

• milis in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• milis in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Borrowed from German Milch.^[1]

milis

1. coconut milk

• ((coconut) milk): melek

• susu

From late Ottoman Turkish میلیس, from French milice.

milis (definite accusative milisi, plural milisler)

1. militia

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “milis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN