"Noi am luat mingea de pe masă."

Translation: We took the ball off the table.

[iiai]

Maybe... The russian мяч sounds almost identically with the romanian word ”meci”=”game or match” in English

[nahuatl1939]

could mingea be of slav origin ? Myach in Russian ? it is maybe far fetched but.......

[relox84]

According to wiktionary, it does indeed come from slavic and is a cognate to Russian мяч.