"Menyn."

Translation: Butter.

[John_B_Kohler]

I remembered the word for honey, mêl. I noticed that butter, menyn, looks extremely similar. I decided to look up the word for yellow and was pleasantly surprised to find "melyn". Certainly a pattern there. The drink "Mello Yello" suddenly makes more sense.

[shwmae]

Yep, mêl and melyn both ultimately come from the same source, PIE *melit-, with many modern day cognates.

(Y)menyn on the other hand comes from PIE *h₃engʷ-, meaning "to anoint". Cognates are Latin "ung(u)ere", English "unctuous", German dialect "Anke".

Making little connections like you have, whether their historically accurate or not, is a great way to learn vocab.

[mizinamo]

Just don't confuse it with a mill, which is "melin".

[John_B_Kohler]

Knowing a bit of French, mêl also seems likely a cognate of le miel, the French for honey.

[mizinamo]

Indeed it is. One of the words that has changed surprisingly little in the thousands of years since the Indo-European languages split apart. Compare Latin mel, Greek meli.

[13jones68]

menyn = butter

[JoshMassey3]

Any relation to Melyn for yellow?

[mizinamo]

Please see the comment thread started by John_B_Kohler, in particular the comment by shwmae.

[Dan1458]

at first i heard money lol

[Ahmad30981]

i thought it meant yellow

[mizinamo]

That's melyn.