GJUHA SHQIPE ESHTË PERFAQSUESJA MË ORIGJINALE DHE E KOMPLETUAR E ILIRIKO – THRAKISHTES
- Shqip – Mal
- Ilire – Maluntum
- Dacian – Maluensis
mal m. pt. male ‘mountain’. From PAIb *mala identical with Lith malä
‘land’. Latv mala ‘bank, shore’ (JOKL LKUBA 162 f.. 320. Reallex.
Vorgesch. 1 87); cf. also *mal- reflected in the ancient Balkan toponymy: Illyr Maluntum, Dac Dacia Maluensis vs. Dacia Ripensis. Note an archaic derivative in PAIb “malja > maje ‘summit, peak’ (MEYER Wh. 273. Alb. St. IT 63, 78; OREL FL.H VIIt/1-2 39).
From Proto-Albanian * mala was borrowed into Rum mal ‘bank’. O GIL’FERDING Oin. 23 (to Skr mart- ‘mountain*); PEDERSEN KZ XXXIII 543: JOKL ZONF X 198- 200; TAGLIAVINI Dalmazia 181, Origini 149; KRAHE Balkan-ill. 53- 55: KRETSCHMER Glorta XIV 90: MOHLENBACH – ENDZELIN II 556;
MAYER II 73-74: LA PIANA Studi 1 112 (to Skt mardhán- ‘top, summit’, OE molda ‘forchead’): MANN Language XXVI 386-387, XXVIII 36 (to rare Ir mol ‘heap’): PISANI Saygi 126: FRAENKEL.
400-401; POKORNY 1 722; POGHIRC /st. limb. rom. I1 331: ROSETTE ILR I 278: HULD 89 (follows La PIANA