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Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/maluɨn
Proto-Brythonic
Etymology
From earlier *malɨɣn, borrowed from Latin malignus (“wicked, malicious”),[1] syncopation of malus (“bad”) + genus (“kind”), doublets of Proto-Celtic *mellos (“destruction, confusion”) and *genos (“family; birth”).
Adjective
*maluɨn
- evil, accursed
Related terms
- *gen
- *gėnjed
Descendants
- Middle Welsh: malaen
- Welsh: malen
References
- Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 216: “Lat. malignus¹ > PBr. *Malïγn- > *Malēn”