mălai.
cornflour
Meaning & usage
cornflour
millet flour
any cereal
Romanian cornbread
hairy woodrush (Luzula pilosa)
field woodrush (Luzula campestris)
kochia
millet, millet grains
millet, millet grains
money, dosh, dough
Where this word comes from
Possibly from Late Dacian *mellája, from Dacian *melwá-ja, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-wo-yo- (“consisting of flour”), from *melh₂-wo- (“flour”), from *melh₂- (“to grind”), or some other Paleo-Balkanic substrate. Compare Albanian miell and Hungarian málé. Other theories include Latin amylum + the suffix -alium. More likely is some connection with mămăligă, perhaps through contraction of a variant *mămălaie.
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