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Albanian
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 (plural mëllagë, definite mëllaga, definite plural mëllagat)
- mallow
References
- ^ Huld, Martin E. (1986). "Accentual Stratification of Ancient Greek Loanwords in Albanian". Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung. 99 (2): 245–253.
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mëllagë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 259