English
malar
Malar comes from Latin mala ‘jaw, cheek-bone’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *smeḱ- ‘beard’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*smeḱ-‘beard’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*smakslāreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmala‘jaw, cheek-bone’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmalaris
- Englishearliest quotation 1974malar
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*smeḱ-‘beard’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*smakslāreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmala‘jaw, cheek-bone’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmalaris
- Englishearliest quotation 1974malar
Earliest quotation: 1974, Guy Davenport: “Whose? Les yeux morts d'Eurydice, he says, but suspects…”
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *smakslā
through Latin mala ‘jaw, cheek-bone’
Today it means
adj Pertaining to the cheek.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *smeḱ- / malar