Where does “malhskaz” come from?

malhskaz (Proto-Germanic) comes from Proto-Indo-European (s)mel- — false, erroneous; bad, evil.

Ancestry of “malhskaz”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European(s)mel-false, erroneous; bad, evil
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)mel-
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