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malen.

to paint (do paintwork)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈmaːlən/[maːl̩n]Germany/ˈmaːlɛn/[maːl̩n]Austria, Southern-Germany, Switzerland
  1. to paint (do paintwork)

    intransitive · weak
  2. to paint (create a painting)

    intransitive · transitive · weak
  3. to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.)

    broadly · weak
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *mēlą Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *mēlijaną Proto-West Germanic *mālijan Old High German mālōn Middle High German mālen German malen From Middle High German mālen, from Old High German mālōn, mālēn, denominative of māl (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *mālijan, from Proto-Germanic *mēlijaną (compare Dutch maal), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“dark color”) (compare Lithuanian mė́las (“black”), Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark-colored, black”)).

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