köken: From Middle High German miltau, from Old High German miltau, from militou, from Proto-West Germanic *milidauw, from Proto-Germanic *milidawwaz; equivalent to *mili (“honey”) + *dawwō (“dew”). The modern form through a secondary coincidence with Mehl (“flour”), which is due to the regular vocalic development in Low German and some dialects of Central German; compare Middle Low German mēldouwe,…
köken: Cognate with Central Kurdish ژەنگ (jeng), Northern Kurdish jeng, Baluchi زنگ (zang), and with Iranian borrowings in Old Armenian ժանգ (žang), and Caucasian languages such as Georgian ჟანგი (žangi), ჯანგი (ǯangi). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *geng- (“lump”) and cognate with Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros, “tubercular disease in olive-trees”). For the sense development compare the…
köken: From Byzantine Greek μοῦχλα (moûkhla, “mould”), borrowed from (Western?) Aramaic מוּגְלָא / ܡܘܓܠܐ (muḡlā) (“pus, water under a blister”; in the usually attested Eastern language forms instead not actually recorded as “mould”, apparently then transferred from an idea of “damaging liquid”), when also around the same time Middle Armenian forms the compound մգլահոտ (mglahot, “smelling like mould;…
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *muccicālium, from Latin muccidus, the same source as muced (“moldy, fusty”). Formed similarly to putregai. Compare Italian moccicaglia.
mold, mildew (a natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air)
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köken: Borrowed from Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian plijesan (“mildew”) and Slovene plesen (“mold”).