{"id":18649,"date":"2019-12-23T17:41:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18649"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:41:50","slug":"mulling-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18649","title":{"rendered":"Mulling Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mulled beverages, such as wine, seem to be quite popular at this time of year, at least in the UK. To mull wine, or other beverages, you add spices and maybe fruit, and heat it up. Is this a thing in other countries?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/restaurante-kaialde\/8301051214\/in\/photolist-dDx4jE-9fTvzW-9meuB7-t5U77-Rc9Vd4-BKsTMB-2hNEUch-FPnU7N-6fNEGM-7xXaCt-KMiRSa-6fNCrV-aaoT9E-b2H5ox-Di4WUG-Cd95dy-6fNEPP-8YBBzp-6fNDGX-BmtmKC-aam4x6-7o3S5U-6fSSpu-cNXqPh-6fSRMQ-4ec74e-23BWkof-5JzbSE-6fNEmt-6fNCoV-6fNCmz-6fNBQr-6fNAWB-6fSHdG-6fSHaY-hH6zMu-46DBFe-rp1wjB-6fNFPt-6fSNzy-5Y2rWc-dP8GR2-9ngiY-uXkvd-92Ajkp-dxAtmX-k67kSz-8Y4D2y-5MZF3u-4cZi4u\" title=\"Navidad Irlanda - Mulled wine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8359\/8301051214_93dbdec702_z.jpg\" alt=\"Navidad Irlanda - Mulled wine\" width=\"626\" height=\"582\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/mull\">The Online Etymology Dictionary<\/a>, <strong>mull<\/strong> in the sense of mulled drinks was first used in writing in English in about 1600, and possibly comes from Dutch word <em>mol<\/em> &#8211; a kind of white, sweet beer, or from the Flemish <em>molle<\/em> &#8211; a kind of beer, and related to words for &#8220;to soften&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>mull<\/strong>, as is in to mull something over, is probably a version of <strong>mill<\/strong> (to grind), from the Old English <em>mylen<\/em> (a mill), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*mul\u012bn\u014d \/ *mul\u012bnaz<\/em> (mill), from Late Latin <em>mol\u012bnum \/ mol\u012bnus<\/em> (mill), from <em>mol\u014d<\/em> (to grind, mill) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mull\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>mull<\/strong>, as in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mull_of_Kintyre\">Mull of Kintyre<\/a>, comes from the Scottish Gaelic word <em>maol<\/em> (bare, bald, rounded promontary), from the Old Irish <em>m\u00e1el<\/em> (bald, hornless, blunt), from the Proto-Celtic <em>*mailos<\/em> (bald, bare) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/maol\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mfatic\/244207493\/in\/photolist-nzCo2-HEPNJW-68s3Uy-6uxVBK-68sgaW-68nGMc-68s89A-xAqcCL-N466Ft-mppZn-6uC5kQ-qvLyZ-HpACP5-qvL5y-2atu4D9-dgLqdz-dgLwSB-g3Rd3k-25xw576-27Jrz3R-7D1wzn-HQfFD-7D5mFL-8xq4SL-4VWmcp-p15AgQ-24sWj9h-nzBDQ-qvLqP-4PMeG3-g3QJoL-J5o4sK-8bRVHF-nzBR9-qvKTD-2at7VXF-nzBKs-eN4GHT-7pPRLG-4XJfB4-nzBXc-M6qBAq-g3QVjo-VyjY7R-4PLyRE-MVxFjT-nzCaR-8eqgyT-9fmiGE-6PMLnT\" title=\"Mull of Kintyre\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/96\/244207493_7052e608ae_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mull of Kintyre\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mulled beverages, such as wine, seem to be quite popular at this time of year, at least in the UK. To mull wine, or other beverages, you add spices and maybe fruit, and heat it up. Is this a thing in other countries? According to The Online Etymology Dictionary, mull in the sense of mulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,171,10,15,33,35,43,44,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-flemish-vlaams","category-language","category-latin","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-germanic","category-scottish-gaelic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18649"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18657,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649\/revisions\/18657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}