Sunday, 16 September 2007

Molossia and Malesors

Abdullah wrote:"Aleta (Ptoleme II, 15) not identified. Same suffix like in royal Molosian name Alk-eta. Resemblance with Aletium in Apulia is striking. A town Halata is in present Monte-Negro. According to Krahe, the element al- appears also in city name Al-eva, Al-eta in Sicilia (Ptol. 3,4), Al-etius, Venetian person name; also Aletrium mons in Latium with identical suffix like Illyrian Andetrium (see below). Variant forms Al-ata, Nal-ata suggest that it may be related to PAlb nal-të ‘high (place, mountain)’. So, the root is probably *H2el- ‘to grow’.(Pokorny 2. al- 26.)"

My comment:
"Abdullah probably never heard for a dog called Molosser (name derived from Molossia, a country once located in Western Greece). Molosser could be translated from Greek as Black Mountain dog. Albanian Malësor has the same meaning as Crnogorac or Montenegrin.
"I would like to see what alchemy Abdulah has used to acquire the meaning 'high' from so-called PAlb nal-të; or it happened so because the Greek word μελας/melas (black) was misunderstood by the Albanians, MELAS-ORO/S μελας/ορο-ς means BLACK MOUNTAIN in Greek and Albanian MALESOR's real meaning is not "highlander" but Black Highlander or Montenegrin.
"Present Republic of Montenegro (Serbian Crna Gora) is a Black Mountain; the same Black Mountain exist in Macedonia (Skopska Crna Gora) compared with Melas-oro (also Black Mountain) in Greek. As we can see, only Albanians and Albanian language missed BLACK MONTAIN because of their inaptitude to understand foreign languages (in this case Greek) properly.
"Actually, the Albanians adopted Greek μελας/MELAS, "translating" it to their own 'mountain'. Finally, the logcial question imposes itself: if the Albanians borrowed the Greek MELAS (black) in order to name the mountains where they were allegedly born, how can anyone talk about about so-called Illyrian heritage in Albanian?
"It means: had the Albanians been the true natives of Balkan they must have had their own (inherited) name for mountain. Malisors (Greek melas oro/s) are the Black Mountaineers; Crnogorci are the Black Mountaineers or Monte Negrins; Greek Melas Oros (Black Mountain; Kara-dag in Turkish) became Albanian Malisor (mountaineer); it is the way how the Greek word melas (black) became Albanian "mountain".
"There is no borrowing from Albanian into Greek or any other language in Balkan, simply, because Albanians were colonized in Balkan during 12th century (in a small and negligible number). It took them a few centuries to become a real and recognizable nation.

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