## Meanings
1. A building or factory where grain is crushed into flour, or where materials like cloth or paper are made.
2. A small machine for grinding something into powder.
3. To grind something in a mill.

## Examples
- Her grandfather worked in the cotton mill all his life.
- Pepper tastes better when it is ground fresh from a mill.
- The farmers brought their grain to be milled into flour.

## Derived Forms
- catmill
- coffee-mill
- cornmill
- cryomill
- endmill
- flourmill
- free-milling
- gig-mill
- gossip-mill
- gristmill
- hammermill
- handmill

## Related Forms
- bp
- percent

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *melh₂-
- Root: mylne
- Root: mylen
- Root: *mulīnu
- Root: molīna
- Root: molō

## Etymology
From Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline, moulin, and blin.

## AI Etymology
Mill comes from Middle English mylne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu (“mill”), from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, molīnus (“mill”), from Latin molō (“grind, mill”, verb), closely allied to Proto-Germanic *muljaną (“to crush, grind”) (see English millstone). Perhaps cognate with Milne (a surname). Doublet of moline, moulin, and blin. In present-day English its meanings include a building or factory where grain is crushed into flour, or where materials like cloth or paper are made, a small machine for grinding something into powder, and to grind something in a mill. The historical chain runs through *melh₂- (Proto-Indo-European), mylne (Middle English), mylen (Old English), *mulīnu (Proto-West Germanic), and molīna (Late Latin).

## Topics
- Tools, Machines & Construction

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