μάλα
Ancient Greek
adverb
Definitions
- very, very much, exceedingly
Etymology
Derived 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
- meliorism English
- mollification English
- mulierose English
- multeity English
- emolliēns Latin
- male Latin
- male habitus Latin
- malus Latin
- melior Latin
- meliorō Latin
- melius Latin
- meliōrāre Latin
- meliōrō Latin
- mollis Latin
- molluscus Latin
- muliebris Latin
- mulier Latin
- muliēbris Latin
- multangulus Latin
- multicius Latin
- multidentatus Latin
- multiflorus Latin
- multiformis Latin
- multilineatus Latin
- multiloquium Latin
- multiloquus Latin
- multipunctatus Latin
- multispinosus Latin
- multivorans Latin
- multus Latin
- permultus Latin
- multi- German
- multi- Hungarian
- meglio Italian
- multi- Italian
- multi- French
- mélioratif French
- multi- Spanish, Castilian
- βλεννός Ancient Greek
- μάλιστα 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
- *ml̥tos Proto-Indo-European
- multi- Portuguese
- *mailą Proto-Germanic
- *moľь Proto-Slavic
- multi- Czech
- mialz Old French
- mielz Old French
- mieudre Old French
- molt Old French
- multa Esperanto
- molt Catalan, Valencian
- multi- Catalan, Valencian
- melc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mult Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- milze Latvian
- milzene Latvian
- milzenis Latvian
- milzis Latvian
- milzīgs Latvian
- mellor Old Portuguese
- mui Old Portuguese
- muito Old Portuguese
- *malnos Proto-Celtic
- *meldo Proto-Celtic
- *mello- Proto-Celtic
- multu Aromanian
- *malos Proto-Italic
- *meljōs Proto-Italic
- *moltos Proto-Italic
- meyor Asturian
- mui Asturian
- munchu Asturian
- melas Lithuanian
- melhs Old Occitan
- mot Old Occitan
- mucho Old Spanish
- muito Old Spanish
- mejo Venetian
- mult Dalmatian
- muy Ladino
- miec Ladin
- mègius Sardinian
- *mel(n)- bat-pro