millstone

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪlstəʊn/
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• General-American: /ˈmɪlˌstoʊn/
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 L S T OW2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From millstone, mill + stone.

From Middle English mylneston, milneston, from Old English mylenstān (“millstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnu + *stain; equivalent to mill + stone; cognate with Danish møllesten, Middle Dutch molensteen (modern Dutch molensteen), West Frisian molestien, Norwegian Bokmål møllestein, Old Saxon mulinstēn (Middle Low German mȫlenstēn), Old High German mulinstein, mülstein (Middle High German mülstein, modern German Mühlstein).

97 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Northern Altai: тербен тажы (terben tažï) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Southern Altai: теерменниҥ тажы (teermenniŋ tažï) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Arabic: رَحًى (raḥan) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Armenian: երկանաքար (erkanakʻar) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Armenian: ջրաղացաքար (ǰraġacʻakʻar) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Basque: errotarri — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Belarusian: жаро́н (žarón) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Belarusian: жо́ран (žóran) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Belarusian: жо́рны (žórny) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Bulgarian: водени́чен ка́мък (vodeníčen kámǎk) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Bulgarian: же́рка (žérka) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Catalan: mola — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Chinese Mandarin: 石磨 (shímò) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Chinese Mandarin: 磨石 (mòshí) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Czech: mlýnský kámen — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Dalmatian: mucna — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Danish: møllesten — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Dutch: molensteen — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Esperanto: muelŝtono — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Estonian: veskikivi — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Finnish: myllynkivi — large round stone used for grinding grain
• French: meule — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Friulian: muele — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Galician: moa — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Georgian: დოლაბი (dolabi) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Georgian: წისქვილის ქვა (c̣iskvilis kva) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• German: Mühlstein — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌵𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃 (asiluqairnus) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Greek: μυλόπετρα (mylópetra) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Ancient Greek: μύλος (múlos) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Hebrew: רחיים \ רֵחַיִם (rekháyim) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Hindi: चक्की (cakkī) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Hungarian: malomkő — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Icelandic: kvarnarsteinn — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Icelandic: myllusteinn — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Interlingua: mola — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Italian: mola — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Italian: macina — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Japanese: 碾き臼 (hikiusu) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Japanese: ひき臼 (hikiusu) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Khmer: ថ្មត្បាល់ (thmɑɑtbal) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Korean: 맷돌 (maetdol) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Central Kurdish: بەرداش (berdaş) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Northern Kurdish: beraş — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Latin: mola — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Latvian: dzirnakmens — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Lithuanian: girnos — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Macedonian: ме́лник (mélnik) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Macedonian: о́кно (ókno) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Norwegian Bokmål: kvernstein — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Norwegian Bokmål: møllestein — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvernstein — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Norwegian Nynorsk: møllestein — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Occitan: mòla — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Old Church Slavonic: жрьновъ (žrĭnovŭ) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Church Slavic: жрьнꙑ (žrĭny) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Persian: آس (âs) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Polish: kamień młyński — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Portuguese: mó — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Romanian: piatră de moară — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Russian: жёрнов (žórnov) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Sardinian: moa — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Sardinian: mola — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Sardinian: mora — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Serbo-Croatian: жрвањ — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Serbo-Croatian: žrvanj — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Sicilian: mola — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Slovak: mlynský kameň — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Slovak: žarnov — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Slovene: mlinski kamen — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Spanish: muela — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Swedish: kvarnsten — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Tagalog: batong-gilingan — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Tagalog: gilingang bato — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Thai: โม่ (môo) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Turkish: değirmen taşı — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Ottoman Turkish: دكرمن طاشی (değirmen taşı) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Ottoman Turkish: رحی (raha) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Ukrainian: жо́рно (žórno) — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Venetan: moła — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Vietnamese: đá cối — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Volapük: mülaston — large round stone used for grinding grain
• Bulgarian: кварци́тен пя́съчник (kvarcíten pjásǎčnik) — coarse-grained sandstone
• Czech: hrubozrnný pískovec — coarse-grained sandstone
• French: meulière — coarse-grained sandstone
• Bulgarian: те́жък това́р (téžǎk továr) — heavy responsibility
• Czech: mlýnský kámen na krku — heavy responsibility
• Danish: møllesten om halsen — heavy responsibility
• Danish: klods om benet — heavy responsibility
• Dutch: molensteen — heavy responsibility
• Finnish: riippa — heavy responsibility
• Finnish: taakka — heavy responsibility
• Finnish: riippakivi — heavy responsibility
• Finnish: myllynkivi — heavy responsibility
• German: Klotz am Bein — heavy responsibility
• Macedonian: те́жок то́вар (téžok tóvar) — heavy responsibility
• Swedish: kvarnsten — heavy responsibility