Where does “malsanulo” come from?
malsanulo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto malsana, from Esperanto mal-, from French mal-, from Middle French mal-, from Old French mal-, from Latin male, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα — small animal”; small animal.
malsanulo (Esperanto): a sick person
Definitions
- a sick person
Ancestry of “malsanulo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | malsana | unhealthy, ill, sick |
| 2 | Esperanto | mal- | denotes opposites |
| 3 | French | mal- | badly; wrongly; denotes the opposite of the... |
| 4 | Middle French | mal- | — |
| 5 | Old French | mal- | bad; badly |
| 6 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 7 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | apple tree |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |