English

Scandinavian mile

Scandinavian + mile

Latin mīlle ‘thousand; a mile’

Proto-West Germanic *mīliju ‘mile’

Old English mīl ‘mile’

Middle English myle

English mile

Today it means

noun A Scandinavian unit of distance of 10 kilometers. Standardized to 10,688.54 meters in 1649, before being defined as 10 km in 1889.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Scandinavian mile