Where does “malŝati” come from?
malŝati (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto malsata, 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.
malŝati (Esperanto): to dislike
Definitions
- to dislike
Ancestry of “malŝati”, step by step
malŝati traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto malsata
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | malsata | hungry; unsatisfied |
| 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 |
via Esperanto ŝati
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | ŝati | to like, appreciate |
| 2 | German | satt | not hungry, satiated; not willing to eat more... |
| 3 | Middle High German | sat | — |
| 4 | Old High German | sāt | full, sated |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *sād | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | sēdiz | seed |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | seh₁- | to impress, insert; to sow, to plant; long,... |