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Mal ( mél, see the preceding word). Even in the expressions z' einemo mâle, ‘once,’ ze drin mâlen, ‘thrice,’ manigen mâlen, ‘many a time,’ were formed; hence  ‘at one period, at two, at many periods’; so too z' andermo mâle, ‘at another time’; hence  eines mâles, ‘once,’  ‘at one period.’ For the  and    mâlum, mâlen (ze drin mâlen, ‘thrice’), the apocopated form  first appears in early.  ', ',, from the  vermaledîen, later also maledîen, ‘to curse’; from  maledicere, whence also  maudire,  maledire. ,, ‘to paint,’ from mâlen,  ‘to furnish with a mark or sign,’ then ‘to colour, paint, write,’  mâlôn, mâlên, ‘to paint, draw’; allied to  mât; ‘point,’ signifying also ‘period’ according to  (2), mentioned under  (1). Akin also to mêla, , ‘writing, documents,’ mêljan, ‘to write, record.’ ', ',, ‘to crush to pieces, grind,’ only, but apparently, on account of the infrequency of the m-suffix, far older. The non-occurrence of *mâlmôn and  *malmen is probably only an accident; in  zermaln and zermüln, ‘to grind,’ are used. The suffix m is seen in the nouns, malma,, ‘sand,’ and , , and  mëlm,. , ‘dust’; to these are allied and,  gemülle,  gimulli, ‘dust, mould’ For the root mal see under.  , and, ‘measure’ (in  formerly about 18 bush.), from  malter, malder, , ‘corn measure’;   maltar,  maldar, , ‘measure.’ Formed by means of the  suffix -þra-, -dra- ( τρο-,  tro-,  ), from the root mal; see ,  means  ‘grinding,’ then ‘the quantity given to be ground at one time.’   ,, ‘mallow,’ only, from   malva; if it were borrowed at an early period, lv in  ought to have changed into lb in. In England the term was adopted in very early times; hence  mealwe,  mallow ( maluwe). also mauve.   ,, ‘malt,’ from the  and  malz, ;   and  malt, ,  mealt,  malt ( *malt, ); a common  word for  ‘malt,’ which passed into  and  (  mlato,  mallas), and also into  as malt. *maltas belongs to a root melt, in  mëltan, ‘to dissolve, liquefy, melt,’ to which is allied an   maltr, ‘rotten,’ similar to  and  malz, ‘melting away, soft, relaxed.’ Perhaps the   ( *malt, ) is only the  of this, meaning ‘that which is soft.’ See further.  ,, ‘to stutter,’ only, of obscure origin. ,, ‘one, they, people,’ from and  man; corresponding to  and  man,  men;    of the   , ‘homo’; so too  homo appears as a  in  on (as well as homme). In the early periods (,, and ) man was again represented by the 3rd   ( and  ër,  hê); hence man is  ‘any man’; in  manna is found only with a negation (ni manna, ‘nobody’); see. The may have here a collective meaning, just as  mánus, and pûrús in the  signify ‘person, people, mankind.’ ,, ‘many a,’ from manec (g),  manag, , ‘much, many a.’ The g has been preserved in  ;. the change of g to ch in this word, which is first found in, is due to influence. manec, manag, ‘much’; akin to  manags, ‘much,’ so too  monig,  many,  maneg,  menig. From the standpoint, the  may be derived from  and  mana-, ‘man, person,’ which  always occurred in compounds;   ga-man,, ‘fellow-man,’ mana-sêþs, ‘mankind,’  manaheit, ‘valour,’ manalîhho, ‘likeness,’ &c. In that case, since the suffix ga-, to  κο-,  o, denotes ‘providing with something,’ the  meaning of  manags may have been ‘to provide with people.’ Yet  menice, ‘frequent,’ and  mănogŭ, ‘much,’ point to a  word probably unconnected with  and  mana-, ‘person.’   (1.), ‘fifteen,’ only; the other meaning, which appears in earlier, ‘shock of corn (of 15 sheaves),’ may be the older. The word cannot be etymologically explained. ( 