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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

Words derived from “malhskaz”

  • masker
  • masken
  • maskeren
  • malskren
  • malscrung
  • malscrian
  • malskaz
  • malsch
  • malsc
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