miller

Meaning

Noun

• A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flour mill.
• A milling machine.
• Any of several moths that have powdery wings, especially Acronicta leporina (species) and moths of the genus Agrotis (genus).
• The common name of a flour-smelling mushroom, Clitopilus prunulus (species).

Origin

• From Middle English miller, meller, millere, from earlier mylner, mylnere, milnere, from Old English *myllere, *mylnere, perhaps an assimilation or corruption of Old English mylnweard, or from late Proto-Germanic *muljāriaz, *mulinārijaz, equivalent to mill + -er; cf. also Late Latin molīnārius. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Muller ("miller"), Dutch mulder, molenaar, Low German Möller, German Müller, Danish møller, Norwegian Bokmål møller, Norwegian Nynorsk mylnar, møllar, Swedish mjölnare, Icelandic mylnari.