Adjective: malalt
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | malalt |
| Singular f. | malalta |
| Plural m. | malalts |
| Plural f. | malaltes |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like malalt
treballador,
depurador,
secret,
sensat,
sencer,
saturn,
sadoll,
somall,
somort,
solter,
solell,
sincer,
beccurt,
benèvol,
seljúcid,
xiquet,
bevedor,
xarbot,
empipador,
esfereïdor, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Catalan malaute, from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, run down”).
2. The sound changes approximately ran as follows: *[maˈlaβtu] > [maˈlau̯te] > [maˈlaɫt]. The last stage involves a reidentification of coda [u̯] as the phoneme /l/, heavily velarized in coda positions. Cf. Catalan colze < colde < *coude < *[ˈkoβ(e)do] < Latin cubitum.
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