Word Origin Summary

*ml̥h₂ekos is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

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

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root