The story
- Proto-Slavic · derived from*melti
- English todayMaley
* As an Irish surname, variant of Malley, see O'Malley. * As a Carpathian Rusyn surname, variant of Mljec, from млєц (mljec, “to mill”), from Proto-Slavic *melti. * As a Czech and Slovak (Malý), Polish (Mały, Maly), and Slovene surname (Mali), from *malъ (“little, small”). Compare Maly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.