mollification
English
noun
Definitions
- The act of mollifying.
Etymology
Suffix from English mollify root from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mel-
Gloss
soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
暗, 闇, 冥
Emoji
🍦 🔈️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mollifiable English
- mollifier English
- mollify English
- mulierose English
- emolliēns Latin
- male Latin
- male habitus Latin
- malus Latin
- mollis Latin
- molluscus Latin
- muliebris Latin
- mulier Latin
- muliēbris Latin
- βλεννός Ancient Greek
- μάλα Ancient Greek
- μέλος Ancient Greek
- μαλθακός Ancient Greek
- μᾶλλον Ancient Greek
- *(h₂)moldus Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)mal- Proto-Indo-European
- *mel- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey- Proto-Indo-European
- *mailą Proto-Germanic
- *moľь Proto-Slavic
- mollifier Old French
- melc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- *malnos Proto-Celtic
- *meldo Proto-Celtic
- *mello- Proto-Celtic
- *malos Proto-Italic
- melas Lithuanian
- *mel(n)- bat-pro