mala
Swedish
verb-reg
Definitions
- to grind; to make smaller
- to speak ceaselessly, usually about one single subject
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish mala inherited from Old Norse mala inherited from Proto-Germanic *malaną (grind, grindVerb).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*malaną
Gloss
grind, grindVerb
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- rosemaled English
- rosemaler English
- rosemaling English
- maalata Finnish
- Malarici Latin
- maalstroom Dutch, Flemish
- maelstrom Dutch, Flemish
- *melh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- rosemaler Norwegian Bokmål
- rosemaling Norwegian Bokmål
- *malaną Proto-Germanic
- malström Swedish
- ström Swedish
- mala Norwegian Nynorsk
- mylenstān Old English
- mala Old Norse
- mala Icelandic
- mala Faroese
- 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *malan gmw-pro
- mala Old Swedish
- melm lng