Where does “malŝategi” come from?

malŝategi (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto mal-, from French mal-, from Middle French mal-, from Old French mal-, from Latin male, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα, from Ancient Greek μῆλον — small animal”; small animal.

malŝategi (Esperanto): to loathe, detest

Definitions

  1. to loathe, detest

Ancestry of “malŝategi”, step by step

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