Where does “mmalinja” come from?
mmalinja (Maltese) comes from Italian malignare, from Latin maligno, from Latin malignus, from Latin male, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα, from Ancient Greek μῆλον, from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l- — small animal”; small animal.
mmalinja (Maltese): to malign
Definitions
- to malign
Ancestry of “mmalinja”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | malignare | to malign |
| 2 | Latin | maligno | I malign; I act viciously; dative masculine... |
| 3 | Latin | malignus | wicked, malicious; spiteful; malignant, malign |
| 4 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 5 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | apple tree |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |