mollë

See also: molle, MOLLE, Mollé, mölle, and mølle

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *mālā, akin to Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”), Latin mālum (“apple”), either a cognate or borrowed from either of the two. Likely from a western dialect borrowed from Doric Greek.[1][2] A borrowing from Latin[3][4] would be unusually early, as the shift from *ā to o, characteristic of inherited words, would not be paralleled in any other Latin loan. Direct inheritance is formally possible,[1] though dubious given the defined areal distribution and the absence of any clear cognate outside of it. See Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon) for further connections. Sense 2 is a common metaphor, compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “cheek”) etc.[5]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔɫə/, [mɔɫ]

Noun

mollë f (plural molla, definite molla)

  1. apple
    Synonym: mollçinë
  2. cheek
    Synonym: mollëz
    • From Rogovë, sung in Prizren[5]:
      Pes gishta na i ka dora, // Kater kom na i ka dhija, // Tri kam terezija, // E dy molla na i ka vajza. (northwestern Gheg)
      Five fingers has the hand, // Four legs has the goat, // Three legs the scales, // And two cheeks has the girl.

Declension
Declension of mollë
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative mollë molla molla mollat
accusative mollën
dative molle mollave mollës mollavet
ablative mollash

Derived terms
  • mollaftua
  • mollak
  • mollapjeshkë
  • mollaqe
  • mollash
  • mollatartë
  • mollë dheu
  • mollë e egër
  • mollë e fytit
  • mollë i kuq
  • mollëkuqe
  • mollëmuçe
  • mollët
  • mollëz

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2016) “On the origin of Greek μῆλον, Latin mālum, Albanian mollë and Hittite šam(a)lu- ‘apple’”, in The Journal of Indo-European Studies‎, volume 44, page 86
  2. Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 221
  3. Meyer, G. (1891) “mołε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 285
  4. Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 31
  5. Eric P. Hamp (1992) “Albanian”, in Jadranka Gvozdanović, editor, Indo-European Numerals, Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 835–836

Further reading
  • “mollë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “mollë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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