Where does “maldescent” come from?
maldescent (English) comes from English mal, from French mal, from Old French mal, from Latin malleus, from Proto-Indo-European melh₂-no-, from Proto-Indo-European melh₂-, from Proto-Indo-European mel-, from Proto-Indo-European mey- — to strengthen; to bind; to change, exchange.
maldescent (English): The incomplete descent of the testicles
Definitions
- The incomplete descent of the testicles
Ancestry of “maldescent”, step by step
maldescent traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English mal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mal | illness, affliction; A longboard; Malleolus |
| 2 | French | mal | trouble, difficulty; pain; evil |
| 3 | Old French | mal | evilly; badly; poorly; evil |
| 4 | Latin | malleus | hammer, mallet; a disease of animals; the... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | melh₂-no- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | melh₂- | to grind, to crush |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | mel- | soft; tender; weak; to deceive; to rub |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | mey- | to strengthen; to bind; to change, exchange |
via English descent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | descent | An instance of descending; act of coming down; A... |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | descente | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | descendre | to descend; to go down; to descend; to dismount |
| 4 | Latin | descendo | I climb down, to come down, to descend; I march... |
| 5 | Latin | de- | of; from |
| 6 | Latin | de | The name of the letter "D"; of, concerning,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | de | Emphatic or contrastive particle, and, but;... |