ՄԵԼԻՆԷ Melineh

[Arpa]

Melineh/Մելինէ, the so endearing name we give our girls.

From here;

WRONG, and WRONG again.

http://armenian.name/index.php?a=term&d=4&t=1175

Yes, we know that in the Greek “melan/մելան” means “black” as in “melancholy/մելամա.ղցոտ” and “melan/ink/ մելան“.

What are these guys smoking, the Greco Russian drug of choice of “morpheus/morphine” ?

MELANYA

From Russian name Melaniya which comes from Greek melas "dark". It is in use since XIX c.

ՄԵԼԱՆՅԱ

ռուս. ԾպսՈվՌÿ անունից, որ հունական melas բառից է ծագում և նշանակում է “թուխ”, “թխադեմ”, / այստեղից էլ melan “թանաք” բառն է /:Գործածական է անցյալ դարի վերջերից:

Melany/Melania/ Melineh

Frequency: (1476)

1. Southern Italian: affectionate nickname from mele ‘honey’, a dialect form of miele.

2. Italian: possibly a habitational name from Mele in Genoa province.

3. French (southeastern): topographic name for someone who lived by a medlar, Old French mesle.

4. Norwegian (Mæle): variant of Mæhle (see Mehle

Never mind the Greco-Russian. Let’s look at the Latin..

So! Shall we say the Armenian name Melineh means the greek “dark/black” as in “melancholy” or the Latin “sweet mele/miele/մեղր/honey”?

Edited January 24, 2009 by Arpa