honeysweet

In light of Hittite militu- 'honeysweet'2, a characteristically Indo-European u-stem adjective derived from milit- 'honey', there should be no doubt where the first element comes from.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

A 4,000 year old love poem: "Bridegroom, dear to my heart, Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,'" the first line in the cuneiform tablet reads.

Archive 2006-02-01 Ann Althouse 2006

She used to love orange blossoms, too, with their honeysweet smell.

Beauty Nancy Butcher 2003

I listened to him, and I thought that maybe life could get better, but that it didn't matter if it did or not, because I was already so happy it hurt, so content to listen to him and his honeysweet young voice.

jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2001

She drank Brother Cadfael's potion, honeysweet and heavy, and blew out her candle.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

She drank Brother Cadfael's potion, honeysweet and heavy, and blew out her candle.

The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

You know her, the little girl with long gold curls and she's so honeysweet fond o 'daisies.

The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960

I'll choose, for honeysweet are they, the apples of the hill.

Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus

We see nature "red in tooth and claw," and so it is; but it is so much else as well; it is dewy, it is honeysweet, it is full of the soft voices of young creatures and the reassuring tones of motherhood.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

Pearl, without responding in any manner to these honeysweet expressions, remained on the other side of the brook.

XIX. The Child at the Brook-side 1917