köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mel m, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n. Cognates include Galician mel m and Spanish miel f.
aile: mel de abelha, mel de cana, melaço, melado, melar, meloso, papa-mel
köken: Disputed. De Vaan posits a derivation from Proto-Italic *heliwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-i-wó-s, itself from the addition of *-wos to *ǵʰolh₃-i-s, which is attested in Sanskrit हरि (hari). Nussbaum argues that the term must come from a pre-form *helVwos and would have emerged via the syncopation of the segment *-lVw- (compare Latin solvō, from *seluō). Furthermore, Nussbaum specifies…
aile: helvolus, helvius, helvella, Helvius
Sunt et Helvolae, quās nōn nūllī variās appellant, neque purpureae neque nigrae, ab helvō, nisi fallor, colōre vocitātae.