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Old Church Slavonic
Alternative forms
- (Cyrillic): младъ (mladŭ)
Etymology
By liquid metathesis from Proto-Slavic *moldъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *maldas, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)moldus (“soft, weak”). Cognates include Old Prussian maldai (“boys”), Latin mollis (“soft, weak”), Ancient Greek βλαδύς (bladús, “weak”) and ἀμαλδύνω (amaldúnō, “to weaken, destroy”).
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