Eldamo : Quenya : mulë

Q. mulë n. “meal” (Category: Meal, Flour)

Q. mulë, n. “meal, *grist, ground grains” (Category: Meal, Flour): Q. polë “meal, grist, [ᴹQ.] flour, [ᴱQ.] oats, grain (unground kernels of oats, wheat, etc.)”

A word in a list of “large & small” roots from around 1968 replacing polë “meal” (PE17/115). It was likely derived from *√MUL, which in the 1910s meant “grind” (QL/63). This words means “meal” in the sense “ground grains” such as “cornmeal”, not “meal” as a time for eating which is [ᴹQ.] mat.

Reference ✧ PE17/115 ✧ mŭle “meal”

mulë “meal” is probably related to ᴹQ. mulo “dust”
ᴺQ. mulma “fine flour” vs. mulë “meal”
polë “meal, grist” vs. mulë “meal”
ᴹQ. pore “flour, meal” vs. mulë “meal”

Element In

ᴺQ. !mulessë “porridge”

Derivations

< *√MUL “grind (fine)”