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Where does “malvarmega” come from?

malvarmega (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto malvarma, 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.

malvarmega (Esperanto): frigid

Definitions

  1. frigid

Ancestry of “malvarmega”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantomalvarmacold
2Esperantomal-denotes opposites
3Frenchmal-badly; wrongly; denotes the opposite of the...
4Middle Frenchmal-—
5Old Frenchmal-bad; badly
6Latinmalebadly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly
7Latinmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;...
8Ancient Greekμηλέα—
9Ancient Greekμῆλονapple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast
10Proto-Indo-European(s)meh₁l-small animal”; small animal
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