Where does “mauvais” come from?
mauvais (Norman) comes from Old French malvais, from Latin malifātius, from Latin fātum, from Latin fātus, from Latin for, from Proto-Italic fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European bʰéh₂ti — to speak, to be talking.
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Ancestry of “mauvais”, step by step