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mezgls

Pronunciation: [mæzɡls]

“mezgls” is a Latvian word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. knot (looping in a string, wire, thread or similar material, that ties or binds things together)
  2. knot (difficulty, hardship; difficult situation)
  3. node, nodule (a thickening of some tissue, usually round or oval; a place where many fibrous elements come together)
  4. a set of pieces or parts that forms an element in a larger engine
  5. a point where various elements meet; a part that links or connects various elements or parts
  6. junction, center, hub (crossing point for different roads, streets, routes; point from which something is controled, directed)
  7. center, nucleus (a place where a certain group of objects — e.g., buildings, machinery, equipment, etc. — is concentrated)
  8. knot (unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile, or 1852 meters, per hour)

Etymology

Perhaps originally an adjective (“knotty”) with an extra l (there are dialectal forms without l, like mezgs “knotty”, as well as older parallel forms with a, like its Lithuanian cognate), from an earlier Proto-Baltic verb *mezg-ti “to braid, to tie in a knot” (cf. its still extant iterative form mežģīt), from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, to tie, to bind”), from which perhaps also mest…

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