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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
<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