Illyria is Akkadian word, that Hettits borowed, God Illuwanka, Semitic Illu Hebrew El Elion etc
Dalmat also follows Akkadian toponymic - mat.
Dardania after Dardanos is also non IE but can be also combined with Slavic (Maybe Thracian) Duri-Dan
Molosia can be explained by Greek also
μολων
about 6 you don't want to read answer.
1) That's not a conclusive etymology, actually the region has no conclusive etymology. But it's not "i lirë" because that's a Latin loan. Illyrians don't even correspond with with a single material culture, they didn't even have similarities between their dress styles, lifestyles etc. (Wilkes) Illyrian is a terrible name. It's like saying "Modern Balkan people". Balkan incorporates parts of Croatia, Bosnia, most of Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, FYROM, Albania and Greece and part of Turkey. Often Romania is included too. That's not counting minorities like the Pomaks, Vlachs, Gypsies etc. Illyrians did not refer themselves as "Illyrians", that was an exonym. I'm not even sure they spoke the same language.
2) All toponyms, except Molossia are have been related to Albanian words (comparative linguistics) and some have counterparts in the Middle Ages as well (Dardasi in Medieval Albanian to Dardha, South Albania -a place not a fruit- in Modern Albanian for example). I'm not sure about the etymology of Molossia. I'm not even sure how it relates to
Myzeqe (at that time
Musachi) as it was claimed in the Middle Ages. Yetos is probably right with this one.
3) Lots of problems with this one. While they can be related to Proto-Albanian words, they can't be related to modern-Albanian words. From
Bardylis to
Bardhyl, or
Bardhi is acceptable, as it's connected with the word "
bardhë" meaning
white, but names like
Blaedarus can't give
Bledar. Proto-Albanian
*blaid-ura gives "
blehurë" meaning
pale, if and only if, those two are connected. Christianity changed the society, brought new names.
4) Proto-Albanians preceded Romans in the Illyrian region. In general linguists studying Albanian have agreed with this. Vladimir Orel uses the words "
must" in his preface instead of "
probably" which is a more scholarly term. The scholars whose work he followed agree as well. There's lots of reasons to accept this, most importantly Proto-Albanian period ends when the oldest Latin loans enter the language. The oldest Latin loans enter in the Augustan era. Dacia and Thracia weren't conquered until many centuries later and there's no sign of migration after. Even if PAlbos were Dacians or Thracians, or Phrygian, or Paeonians or whatever -I'm just throwing names here following no logic whatsoever-, they
must have been in Illyria before Romans. Also Albanian has pre-Christian (
BC) Latin terms which you can't have if conquered in
AD years. What they can't agree is where were Proto-Albanians specifically?
5) Eh, not my field.
6) That's rude.
