DictionaryRoot: mil
Old French
mil
millet
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noun
millet
MIL-it/ˈmɪlɪt/
A cereal grass with small edible seeds, or its grain.
Etymology
Millet is a diminutive built on an older name for the same grain. The formation therefore refashions an existing crop name rather than naming a new kind of cereal.