mauve.
mallow
Meaning & usage
mallow
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.
mauve
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.
mauve
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.
mew, gull, seagull
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French mauve, from Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”). Related to mouette. Cognate with German Möwe (“seagull”), Dutch meeuw (“seagull”), Danish måge (“seagull”), Icelandic mávur (“seagull”), Polish mewa (“seagull”) (from Germanic). More at mew.
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