| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | mel-3 |
| DEFINITION: | False, bad, wrong. 1. mal-, malice, malign; dismal, malady, malaria, maledict, malefactor, malefic, malentendu, malevolence, malison, malversation, from Latin malus, bad, and male, ill (> malignus, harmful). 2. Perhaps suffixed zero-grade form *m -s-. blame, blaspheme, from Greek blasph mos, blasphemous, perhaps from *ms-bh -mo-, “speaking evil” (*bh-, to speak; see bh-2). 3. Suffixed form *mel-yo-. markhor, from Avestan mairiia-, treacherous. (Pokorny 2. mel- 719, mlo- 724.) |
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