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-atae was used by both Latin and Greek authors, and the Greeks used it prior to Latin-Illyrian contact, just in the form of -atai. There is no reason for Illyrian tribes to use Latin elements, especially when the names were older than their contact and many of them had bad relations with Rome...

Gjelbër is from Latin Galbinus, maybe from older unattested *Gjelbën? Çel is from the Porto-Indo-European root *(s)kelH- meaning "to split, separate", hence, "to open".

Again, there is no source for this etymology. Del in Spanish is a contraction or combination of "de el", also written as "d'el". Similarly, in Italian, "De", comes from "de il". De and El/Il both come from Latin, and they were not written as "del" during the life of the Illyrian language. By the...

Măgar = Magar Baltă = Baltë Vino = Vini (I think, not sure what form but I know the meaning) Bre = Bre Muguri = Mugull (?) Măre = More

Source? I know it was originally written by Romans as Delmatia, not Dalmatia. Later on Serbs called the land Ovče Pole (Plain of Sheep). It cannot be from Dal- land, because it was never DALmatian to begin with. Some sources however disagree on both of theories and either claim to be...

How does n̥ yield only /a/ in Albanian? While it does lead to this sometimes, there are examples that are more similar to that of the Illyrian and Messapian outcomes provided. For examples: PIE *h₁nómn̥ led to Alb Emën, with n̥ yielding an /ën/ here. PIE *kn̥h₂ónks led to PA *kenagā and Alb...