latin origin with the first and second syllable "Mal" and ang or ung

"I am not an expert at this and the spelling I commonly find is no help. But if the word has it's origin in any of the romance languages(French, Spanish, Portuguese) the it would derive from Mal, which means badly in French and not 'mel'.

I can do this much with 'mal', and perhaps a bit on the second syllable Ang, ung etc.

It would be derived from the latin, Malos Malo Malus; as it is used in terms of a descriptive then, it would mean
Bady, evil, wicked, or ill in the following forms:

male(Mal) peius(derives words such as piety or it's opposite, pessime badly, ill, wrongly, ie, an example is pessimism. maligo-are would be the verb form which is to plan evil or contrive while malum would be misfortune, misdeed, crime or injury. Malus is bad and pessimus is Evil.

I base this spelling on the word Mal, ie, Grand Mal as we are all familiar with the term, ie, siezure as my starting point and using the text showing the spelling in a news article as Mal and not Mel.

Some of the other origins, I must admit sound intriguing but the people were not characterized as Black or of Slave origin so doubt the African origin of the usage but that is my general view. They were derisively addressed as Blacks who are free or slaves prior to the Civil War even though melungeon might have been derogatory."