Where does “malaise” come from?
Malaise comes from French malaise, from Old French mal- (badly) and eise (ease), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European melH₂- (soft, mild).
malaise (English): A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue...
Definitions
- A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue...
Ancestry of “malaise”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | malaisé | difficult, awkward |
| 2 | French | aisé | easy to do, with ease, simple, effortless;... |
| 3 | Old French | aisié | past participle of aisier; eased, at ease, at... |
| 4 | Old French | aisier | to put at ease; to facilitate |
| 5 | Old French | aise | Alternative form of eise; empty space, elbow... |
| 6 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 7 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |