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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:
> which should be the Proto-Albanian form for "maj"= hammer?
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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
<malungë> `an increased part of the head, caused by hurting it like
with hammer' a suffixed form in Alb. old suffix ungë.
Its presence in Rumanian should testify about its origin to Vulgar
Latin.(Çabej, SE, I, pp.330)
Konushevci