mal.
mold, cast (device to help creating shapes)
Meaning & usage
mold, cast (device to help creating shapes)
Where this word comes from
First attested in the seventeenth century. Ultimately derived from Old French molle, by-form of modle, an old (11th century) borrowing from Latin modulus (“measure”). Doublet of module and modulus.
foolish, crazy, lacking common sense
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch mal, of uncertain origin. Cognate with German malle. Possibly related to French mal (“bad”) or Dutch malen (“to grind, crush”) in the sense "broken, twisted."
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