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Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan malate, malaute, from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, run down”).
The sound changes approximately ran as follows: * > > . The last stage involves a reidentification of coda as the phoneme /l/, heavily velarized in coda positions. Cf. Catalan colze < colde < *coude < * < Latin cubitum.
Pronunciation
Adjective
malalt (feminine malalta, masculine plural malalts, feminine plural malaltes)
- sick, ill
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