Given name & surname
Morphew
“badly, wrong”
Morphew is a surname from Old French, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Morphew goes back to Latin male, meaning “badly, wrong.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Morphew comes from Old French, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old French malfé, from Latin malefatus, from Latin male (“badly, wrong”), from Latin for (“speak, say”), from Proto-Italic *malos, from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *fāōr.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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