mëllagë

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • mullagë

Etymology

Most likely related to mëllë and mëllenjë, with which shares the same peculiarity of zero-grade phonetic variant. Huld, on the other hand, considers it part of a series of loan words from unattested ancient greek dialects labeled as Macedonian, being it akin to the native idiom of the Greek-speaking population in the Argead Kingdom, such as Ancient Macedonian *malákhā(with the reflex of /ɡ/ for Greek <χ> indicating a dialectal voicing of the what came as an aspirate stop from Greek)[1]. Orel suggests a loan from Ancient Greek μαλάχη (malákhē), although admitting that the sonorization of the auslaut is unexpected[2]

Noun

mëllagë f (indefinite plural mëllagë, definite singular mëllaga, definite plural mëllagat)

  1. mallow

References
  1. Huld, Martin E. (1986). "Accentual Stratification of Ancient Greek Loanwords in Albanian". Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung. 99 (2): 245–253.
  2. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 259
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