Notes: Other variants: milimangë; merimangë, merimagë, mirëmangë, merimajkë.Orel sees in these tabooistic transformations of *merming, borrowed < Mod. Greek μυρμήγκι 'id.'.Tsakonian Greek has μελιγκόνι /melingóni/ which is either a loan from Albanian or vice versa the loan source of the Albanian word what remains difficult to decide. If the Tsakonian word shows folk etymology with Greek méli 'honey', it would be more likely be assume Greek origin of the Albanian l-form.