Re: Alb. "maj"

Dear Alvin,
I am much then sure. Look at Çabej, Studime etimologjike (maj) and
You would be sure too. Also, this word is very much spreaded in
Kosova and You could found it in all dictionaries (Fajlori i ri i
Gazulit, Fjalori i Bashkimit, etc.)
Besides mall-ungë, its true that exists a big family of the words
ending in -ung and ungë. Exept boll-ungë, exists also shtrungë,
discussed before in this list, l-ungë, g-ungë and masculine ones: c-
ung, b-ung. This suffix is very common also in Germanic languages.

Regards,
Abdullah Konushevci
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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mbikqyres" <a96_aeu@...> wrote:
> Hello !
>
> Are you sure that such a word as "mallungë" exists in Albanian ?
> I am not aware of it, neither could I find it in any Albanian
> dictionary.
> Did you probably mean "bullungë" = knur,
>
> Regards
> Alvin
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <a_konushevci@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
wrote:
> > > which should be the Proto-Albanian form for "maj"= hammer?
> > ************
> > According to Meyer, <maj> `sledge hammer' and suffixed form
> > <majth> `little hammer' is Slavic loan from Serbo-Croatian
> > <malj> `little hammer' then directly from Latin <malleus>
> `hammer'.
> > Latin source was seen doubtfully by Pedersen and without any
> > reservation by Puscariu. Meyer-Lübke found it from Italian
> <maglio>.
> > So had thinking also Tagliavini, who had denied any Slavic
> > intermediation.
> > Its quite interesting that exists also old derivative of this
word
> > <mallungë> `an increased part of the head, caused by hurting it
> like
> > with hammer' a suffixed form in Alb. old suffix –ungë.
> > According to this last example, I believe that its origin from
> Latin
> > is much convincing than all others suggestios.
> > Its presence in Rumanian should testify about its origin to
Vulgar
> > Latin.
> > (Posting for the second time)
> >
> > Konushevci