mjellmë

• mjelmë, mjellme, mjellemë, mjelleme

From miell, because of its color; from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos (“white”). Structurally identical with Lithuanian melmuõ (“kidney stone”), Old Saxon melm (“sand, dust”) and Old High German melm (“dust”), both Proto-Germanic forms from *malmaz, *malmōn.

• IPA^(key): /mjɛɫmə/

mjellmë f (plural mjellma, definite mjellma, definite plural mjellmat)

1. swan (Cygnus)

• mjellma ne xhungë (“mute swan”) (Cygnus olor)
• mjellma qafëdrejtë (“whooper swan”) (Cygnus cygnus)

• miell, mjellazë, mjellbardhë

• Aromanian: mielmã

• “mjellmë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999) “mjellmë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]