The story
- Old French · derived frommal“bad”
- English todayMalpas
From Old French mal (“bad”) + pas (“passage”), because of the difficulty of the terrain.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchmal all →
malfeasor
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Malpas
Today it means: A small market town and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4847). Full definition →
Old French mal