mallëngjej
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Analogous to Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía), from mall (“longing”), originally meaning "black" and ngjej, archaic variant of ngjyrë (“color”), from Proto-Albanian *en-glejo. Alternatively from Latin malum angere.[1]
Verb
[edit]mallëngjej
- to touch, move emotionally
- to bring to tears
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 203