Etymograph

English

mel

Shortening of melody.

Another origin of mel

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*mel-it‘honey’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*melireconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmel‘honey’
  4. Englishtodaymel

Today it means

noun A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “mel”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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