Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• mauvis

  French · inherited from

• mal

  Galician · inherited from

• malvagio

  Italian · borrowed from

• méla

  Romagnol · inherited from

• mêl

  Romagnol · inherited from

• marvizzo

  Neapolitan · derived from

• mall

  SQI · derived from

• mauvais

  Norman · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root