English

Mallory

Mallory comes from Old French maleure.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of mal ‘bad’ + eur ‘fortune’

Latin malus

Old French mal ‘bad’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwgos ‘to increase, to enlarge’

Proto-Italic *augos ~ *augezos

Latin augur ‘augur’

Latin augurium ‘augury’

Old French eur ‘fortune’

Every English word from Old French maleure

name An English surname from Old French.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.