mëllagë

Albanian

Alternative forms

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 [script needed] (*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 mëllaga, definite mëllaga, definite plural mëllagat)

  1. mallow

Declension

Declension of mëllagë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mëllagë mëllaga mëllaga mëllagat
accusative mëllagën
dative mëllage mëllagës mëllagave mëllagave
ablative mëllagash

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 E. (1998) “mëllagë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 259
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