auace

Etymology

According to Candrea and Densusianu, CADE and Rosetti it is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad hācce, a compound of Latin ad (“to”) and an extended form of hāc (“this way”).^[1][2][3][4] Philippide, Pascu and the REW reconstruct *ad hocce instead, with hoc (“this”).^[1][4]

MDA2 and the DA treat it as a variant of aoace “here”, which the DA derives from Latin hoc-ce.^[5][6] DELR also starts that adverb from the same Latin form, with an initial ⟨a-⟩ either taken from the demonstratives built on eccum or the preposition a, and rejects the explanation with a Latin preposition: its ⟨-d⟩ is kept before vowels in very old fused phrases, and there is no other example of the glide inserted between the vowels.^[7]

The same adverb survives south of the Danube: Aromanian aoatsi “here”.^[8][4][7]

Earliest recorded meaning

Candrea and Densusianu cite it in Hasdeu's dictionary and in Viciu's glossary of Transylvanian words;^[2][3] CADE adds the Uricariul and Convorbiri literare.^[2][3] The sources give no date for its first record.^[2][3]

Semantic evolution

The word is regional, from Transylvania: the DA finds the adverb only among the Moți and in Bihor.^[3][6] Ciorănescu glosses it “here, in this part”;^[2][3] Candrea and Densusianu and CADE give both “here” and “there”.^[1][2][3]

Meanings

Adverb

1. (archaic, regional) here, over here, in this part.^[1][4]
2. (regional) there.^[2][3]

Related words

• aoace
• încoace
• aici

References

1. ^ a b c d Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. auace
2. ^ a b c d e f g Candrea, I.-A.; Densusianu, Ov. (1907–1914), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române: elementele latine (A–Putea), București
3. ^ a b c d e f g h Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească
4. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
5. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 127
6. ^ a b Academia Română (1913–1949), Dicționarul limbii române (DA), ed. Sextil Pușcariu, tom I (A–B, C, D–De) and tom II (F–I, J–Lojniță), București: Socec / Universul / Monitorul Oficial și Imprimeriile Statului; page scans at cflr-scans.solirom.ro, p. s.v. aoace
7. ^ a b Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2011–), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române (DELR), vol. I: A–B (2011), vol. II: C (2015–2018), București: Editura Academiei Române; continued online at delr.lingv.ro, p. s.v. acoace
8. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 84