Etymology

malodour

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English odour ← Old French mal- ← Latin male
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The story

  1. Latinmale
  2. Old Frenchmal-
  3. Englishmal-
  4. Englishodour
  5. English todaymalodour

From mal- + odour.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.