Where does “Malagan” come from?

Malagan (English) comes from English Málaga, from Spanish Málaga, from Arabic مَالَقَة, from Latin Malaca, from Esperanto mal-, from French mal-, from Middle French mal-, from Old French mal- — small animal”; small animal.

Malagan (English): From Málaga or otherwise related to the city of...

Definitions

  1. From Málaga or otherwise related to the city of...

Ancestry of “Malagan”, step by step

Malagan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Málaga

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishMálaga
2SpanishMálaga
3Arabicمَالَقَة
4LatinMalacaMálaga
5Esperantomal-denotes opposites
6Frenchmal-badly; wrongly; denotes the opposite of the...
7Middle Frenchmal-
8Old Frenchmal-bad; badly
9Latinmalebadly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly
10Latinmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;...
11Ancient Greekμηλέαapple tree
12Ancient Greekμῆλονapple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast
13Proto-Indo-European(s)meh₁l-small animal”; small animal

via English ān

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishān
2Middle Englishāna, an indefinite article
3Old Englishānlonely; entirely alone, solitary, single; one
4Proto-West Germanicainone
5Proto-Germanicainazone; some
6Proto-Indo-Europeanóynosone; single
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l-