μῆλον

Etymology 1
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Multiple theories have been put forth:


 * Beekes (2010) declares it to be a Mediterranean  borrowing, comparing it with 🇨🇬.


 * Kroonen (2016) reconstructs a Proto-Indo-European byform *smh₂l-, from which he also derives Hittite, "apple". He also connects this IE form with Proto-Kartvelian  and proposes that the Indo-European words may have come from a metathesis of that Kartvelian word.


 * Fenwick (2016) also argues for an ultimate Indo-European origin, though with differing details, and views the Kartvelian term rather as an IE loan. She reconstructs, with a variant . This variant is visible in e.g. , , and . She takes this variation as evidence of an earlier acrostatic root noun  - which got thematized later on - showing a range of other derived forms. She further treats *móh₂l- itself as a possible archaic *-l- deverbal noun from . She compares this development to that of , which she derives from ).

Noun

 * 1) apple
 * 2) any fruit from a tree
 * 3)  a woman's breast
 * 4)  cheeks

Etymology 2
Perhaps from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬). Despite phonetic and semantic similarities, likely unrelated to, which stems from instead.

Noun

 * 1) sheep
 * 2) goat
 * 3) beast