maraj

See also: Maraj

Albanian

Either from:

*mararja, from Byzantine Greek *μαράθριον (*maráthrion), diminutive of Ancient Greek μάραθρον (márathron), μάραθον (márathon).
Alternatively, from a Vulgar Latin derivative of the same Ancient Greek word: compare Latin marathrum. Related to Romanian mărar and perhaps to Old Church Slavonic молотрь (molotrĭ, “fennel”).
A part of a series of loan words from unattested ancient greek dialects labeled as Macedonian because it was akin to the native idiom of the Greek-speaking population in the Argead Kingdom. borrowed as Ancient Macedonian *márathrion (cf Romanian marariu, Ionic márathron; with the Albanian simplification of -dri̯- to -j- reflecting that of earlier *udri̯om to ujë "water").^[1]

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^ Huld, Martin E. (1986). "Accentual Stratification of Ancient Greek Loanwords in Albanian". Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung. 99 (2): 245–253.

Berneker, Erich (1914) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, page 73
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Meyer, G. (1891) “maraj”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 259
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