Origin of the name MILL Back

Origin

BALEN : Belen, in the Cor. British, is the same as Melen, a mill. Bellyn, local, a town in Lower Saxony. Balaen, Welsh, steel, denoting strength and durability.

MELBOURNE : Local. The mill brook, from Miln, a mill, and borne or bourne, a brook.

MILFORD : Local. The ford by the mill.

MILLMAN : A man belonging to a mill.

MILLS : Local. Living near a mill. Gaelic, Milidh, a soldier, the d being silent.

MILNE : A mill. In Gaelic Muileann also signifies a mill; in Welsh, Milain implies firmness, fixedness of purpose.

MILTHORPE : Local. From a village of that name in Westmoreland, England, so called from mill, and thorpe, a village the mill-village.

MILTON : Local. From the town of Milton, in Kent, England. The mill-town, from the Saxon unto, a mill, and ton; or the middle town.

MOLEN : (Dutch.) A mill.

MOLLOY : (Cor. Br.) The dusty or hoary mill.

MOLYNEUX : (Fr.) Local. From Normandy, De Moulins, De Moulines, De Molineus. From Moulins, a town on the river Allier, in France, so called from the great number of water mills there. Fr., Moulin, a mill.

MULLINS : (Fr.) A miller. De Moulin, from the mill.

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