mallëngjej

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Albanian

Etymology

Analogous to Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía), from mall (“longing”), originally meaning "black" and ngjej, archaic variant of ngjyrë (“color”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *en-glejo. Alternatively from Latin malum angere.[1]

Verb

mallëngjej

  1. touch, move emotionally
  2. bring to tears

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian‎[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 203
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