Morpheme
Mall
Type
free base
Denotation
pedestrianised street, shopping precinct, literally hammer
Etymology
(1) from The Mall in St. James’s Park in London, from pall mall; French pallemaille; Italian pallamaglio, from palla + maglio; Latin malleus; (2) Middle English malet, maylet; Old French mallet, maillet, from mal, mail + -et; Latin malleus
Evidence
cybermall, mall, mallcore, malled, mallet, malleted, malleter, malleting, malletman, mallets, mallgoer, mallgoth, mallification, malling, malls, mallsoft, mallspeak, megamall, minimall, supermall, unmalled
