Where does “malagueño” come from?
malagueño (Galician) comes from Polish Malaga, from Spanish Málaga, from Arabic مَالَقَة, from Latin Malaca, from Esperanto mal-, from French mal-, from Middle French mal-, from Old French mal- — small animal”; small animal.
Ancestry of “malagueño”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish | Malaga | Málaga |
| 2 | Spanish | Málaga | — |
| 3 | Arabic | مَالَقَة | — |
| 4 | Latin | Malaca | Málaga |
| 5 | Esperanto | mal- | denotes opposites |
| 6 | French | mal- | badly; wrongly; denotes the opposite of the... |
| 7 | Middle French | mal- | — |
| 8 | Old French | mal- | bad; badly |
| 9 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 10 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | apple tree |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |