The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*malmaz“sand, ore”
- Old English · inherited frommealm
- Middle English · inherited frommalme“sand”
- English todaymalm
From Middle English malme (“sand”), from Old English mealm (as in mealmstān (“sandstone”)), from Proto-Germanic *malmaz (“sand, ore”); related to Old Norse malmr (“ore, metal”). From the same Proto-Indo-European root as meal. Doublet of mulm.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishmealm all →
manton
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.