See mijl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "nl",
"3": "mijl"
},
"expansion": "Dutch mijl",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "milia",
"4": "",
"5": "Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces"
},
"expansion": "Latin milia (“Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Dutch mijl, cognate with English mile and similarly derived from Latin milia (“Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces”) but used instead for the much longer league of about an hour's walk.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mijls",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mijlen",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "mijlen"
},
"expansion": "mijl (plural mijls or mijlen)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Indonesian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Marathi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Papiamentu translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Netherlands",
"orig": "en:Netherlands",
"parents": [
"Europe",
"Earth",
"Eurasia",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Units of measurement",
"orig": "en:Units of measurement",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "3 7 25 11 53",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 9 32 14 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A former Dutch unit of distance, usually equivalent to about 3 miles or 5–6 km."
],
"id": "en-mijl-en-noun-RtUyse2w",
"links": [
[
"former",
"former"
],
[
"Dutch",
"Dutch"
],
[
"unit",
"unit of measure"
],
[
"distance",
"distance"
],
[
"usually",
"usually"
],
[
"equivalent",
"equivalent"
],
[
"mile",
"mile"
],
[
"km",
"kilometer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical) A former Dutch unit of distance, usually equivalent to about 3 miles or 5–6 km."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Dutch mile"
},
{
"word": "Dutch league"
},
{
"word": "mile"
},
{
"english": "in historical Dutch contexts",
"word": "league"
}
],
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "myl"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "mijl"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "mil"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "meil",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "मेइल"
},
{
"code": "pap",
"lang": "Papiamentu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "my"
}
]
}
],
"word": "mijl"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"nl:SI units",
"nl:Units of measure"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "nl",
"3": "mijl"
},
"expansion": "Dutch mijl",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "milia",
"4": "",
"5": "Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces"
},
"expansion": "Latin milia (“Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Dutch mijl, cognate with English mile and similarly derived from Latin milia (“Roman mile, 1000 Roman paces”) but used instead for the much longer league of about an hour's walk.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mijls",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mijlen",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "mijlen"
},
"expansion": "mijl (plural mijls or mijlen)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms borrowed from Dutch",
"English terms derived from Dutch",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms with historical senses",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Indonesian translations",
"Terms with Marathi translations",
"Terms with Papiamentu translations",
"Translation table header lacks gloss",
"en:Netherlands",
"en:Units of measurement"
],
"glosses": [
"A former Dutch unit of distance, usually equivalent to about 3 miles or 5–6 km."
],
"links": [
[
"former",
"former"
],
[
"Dutch",
"Dutch"
],
[
"unit",
"unit of measure"
],
[
"distance",
"distance"
],
[
"usually",
"usually"
],
[
"equivalent",
"equivalent"
],
[
"mile",
"mile"
],
[
"km",
"kilometer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(historical) A former Dutch unit of distance, usually equivalent to about 3 miles or 5–6 km."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Dutch mile"
},
{
"word": "Dutch league"
},
{
"word": "mile"
},
{
"english": "in historical Dutch contexts",
"word": "league"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "myl"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "mijl"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "mil"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "meil",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "मेइल"
},
{
"code": "pap",
"lang": "Papiamentu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "my"
}
],
"word": "mijl"
}
Download raw JSONL data for mijl meaning in English (2.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.