Where does “balu-” come from?

balu- (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-West Germanic *balwa- — mal-, mis-, wrongly, badly, evilly.

balu- (Old Saxon): Prefix denoting evil, harm, bad

Definitions

  1. Prefix denoting evil, harm, bad

Ancestry of “balu-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*balwa-mal-, mis-, wrongly, badly, evilly

Words derived from “balu-”

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