mélange

== English == === Noun === mélange (plural mélanges) Alternative form of melange. For quotations using this term, see Citations:mélange. === Anagrams === gleeman == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), apparently a borrowing from Frankish *misklingu (“mixture”), from Frankish *misklōn (“to mix”). Compare Old High German miskilunga (“mixture, mess”). Alternatively, derived natively from Old French mescler (“to mix”), from Early Medieval Latin misculare. Equivalent to mêler +‎ -ange (either directly or by surface analysis). ==== Noun ==== mélange m (plural mélanges) mixture, blend ===== Derived terms ===== mélanger ===== Descendants ===== → English: melange → German: Melange → Polish: melanż → Romanian: melanj === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== mélange inflection of mélanger: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “mélange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012