melfar : flour
The Illunse word for flour (powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains) is melfar. Melfar is a very rare last name. Melfar is the local dialect shortened name of the town Middelfart in Denmark.
This word is a mixture of the Old English word for flour, melu (meal, flour), and the Latin word for flour, farina (flour, meal).
This is a new word.
melfara : flours
The Illunse word for flours (nominative plural) is melfara. Melfara is a very rare last name.
Flours in Latin is farinae. Flours in Old English is melwas.
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