Etymology

malparry

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Today it means: A parry that insufficiently removes the incoming blade from the target area. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)mel-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)molos?
  3. Proto-Italic*malos
  4. Latinmalus
  5. Latinmale
  6. Old Frenchmal-
  7. Englishmal-
  8. Englishparry
  9. English todaymalparry

From mal- (“bad”) + parry.

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