Where does “maladi” come from?
maladi (Mauritian Creole) comes from French maladie, from Old French maladie, from Old French malade, from Latin male habitus, from Latin male, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα, from Ancient Greek μῆλον — small animal”; small animal.
maladi (Mauritian Creole): illness
Ancestry of “maladi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | maladie | illness, disease |
| 2 | Old French | maladie | sickness; illness |
| 3 | Old French | malade | ill, unwell, sick |
| 4 | Latin | male habitus | having a sickness; ill-kept, not in good... |
| 5 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 6 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | — |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |