Chaucer's 'Malkin' and Dafydd ap Gwilym's 'Mald y Cwd'

Author / Editor
Breeze, Andrew.

Title
Chaucer's 'Malkin' and Dafydd ap Gwilym's 'Mald y Cwd'

Published
Notes and Queries 240 (1995): 159-60.

Description
Deterioration in the name Malkin, which came to mean "member of the lower classes, slut," can be paralleled by the Welsh "Mald."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.