Etymology

mallín

Today it means: A type of meadow and wetland found in southern Chile and Argentina. Full definition →

Spanish mallín ← Mapudungun malliñ
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The story

  1. Mapudungun · derived frommalliñ
  2. Spanish · borrowed frommallín
  3. English todaymallín

From Spanish mallín, from Mapudungun malliñ.

Words from the same roots

Spanishmallín all →

mallin

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.