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Albanian
Etymology
Analogous to Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía), from mall (“longing”), originally meaning "black" and ngjej, archaic variant of ngjyrë (“color”), from Proto-Albanian *en-glejo. Alternatively from Latin malum angere.
Verb
mallëngjej
- to touch, move emotionally
- to bring to tears
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 203