Word Origin Summary

Μαλακός is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *ml̥h₂ekosProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• malaco-

  English · derived from

• malac

  Romanian · derived from

• Malacostraca

  Translingual · derived from

• Malacozoa

  Translingual · derived from

• μαλακία

  Greek · inherited from

• smalaksati

  HBS · derived from

• μαλακίζομαι

  Greek · derived from

• malaksati

  HBS · derived from

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