Where does “mallow” come from?

Mallow comes from Middle English malue, from Old English mealwe, from Latin malva, a plant used medicinally and as food.

mallow (English): Any of a group of flowering plants in several...

Definitions

  1. Any of a group of flowering plants in several...

Ancestry of “mallow”, step by step

mallow traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English malwe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishmalwemallow plant of the family
2Old Englishmealwemallow
3Latinmalvamallow

via Irish meallach

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Irishmeallach—

Words derived from “mallow”

Every word from Latin malva →Every word from Old English mealwe →Every word from Middle English malwe →