estimp

Forms

estimp (adverb; also stressed éstimp)^[1] A document of 1626 has estimpu: „iară ei să aibă a-ș lua a dzecea estimpu” “and they are to take the tithe this year”.^[2] Pann and Golescu write estim;^[3][4][5] DELR also lists ăstimp and estemp, and in Maramureș the form is iestimp.^[3][4][5]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin istum tempus (“this time”), a phrase of iste (“this”) and tempus (“time”), the view of CADE, the DLR, DEX and Tiktin.^[4][2][1][6] DELR also allows a Romanian phrase of a(i)est “this” and timp, with the initial ⟨a-⟩ lost very early.^[4] Scriban analysed it as est and the same noun.^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

DELR and Tiktin date the first record to a document of 1588, with the sense “this year”.^[4][6]

Semantic evolution

The old and popular sense is “this year”, in contrast to an “last year” and la anul “next year”, as in Pann's proverb „An n-am câștigat, estimp am păgubit, la anul trag nădejde” “last year I gained nothing, this year I lost, next year I have hope”.^[3][2] With de it forms an adjective phrase: grâu de estimp “this year's wheat”.^[6][8] DELR and MDA2 also record the rarer sense “in this time, meanwhile”.^[4][8] Tiktin marks the word as Wallachian and Transylvanian.^[6]

Timeline

• 1588 – first record, in a document.^[4][6]
• 1626 – estimpu in a document.^[2]
• 1801 – in Klein's dictionary, glossed Latin hoc anno.^[9]

Meanings

Adverb

1. (popular, regional) This year, in the present year.^[1][8][10]
2. (rare) In this time, meanwhile.^[4][8]

Related words

• ăst
• timp
• acest

References

1. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 361
2. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. estimp
3. ^ a b c Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 221
4. ^ a b c d e f g h 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. estimp
5. ^ a b Ștef, Dorin (2021), Dicționar de regionalisme și arhaisme din județul Maramureș, 3rd ed., Baia Mare, p. s.v. éstimp
6. ^ a b c d e Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. estimp
7. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 1, 475
8. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 835
9. ^ Gáldi, László (ed.) (1944), Samuel Klein: Dictionarium valachico-latinum. Primul dicționar al limbii române, Budapest: Királyi Magyar Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetemi Román Intézet (Klein's dictionary of 1801, with Gáldi's etymological study), p. 357
10. ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org