furișa

Forms

furișa (third-person singular present furișează, past participle furișat) 1st conjugation^[1] A variant înfurișa occurs in the Mineiul of 1716: „înfurișându-se, să duse” “stealing away, she went”.^[2][3] Beside the usual present furișez, MDA2 records a rare furiș.^[4]

Etymology

It is from Romanian furiș (“stealthy, secret”).^{[2][5][3][4][1]} The adjective is formed from the old noun fur (“thief”) with the suffix -iș,^[4][5] and the noun continues Latin fūr (“thief”).^[6][1] DA compares the old reflexive use of fura (“to steal”), of the same meaning.^[2][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record to about 1560, in the Apostle of the priest Bratul (1559–1560).^[3] The Bible of 1688 has it in the sense “to steal away”: „Să furișă norodul în zioa aceaia” “the people stole away that day”.^[2][4]

Semantic evolution

The verb is mostly reflexive: to slip in or out, approach or leave unseen.^[2][7] With de it means to steal away from someone, as in Creangă and Ispirescu.^[2] Used transitively it means to slip something in unnoticed, for instance a glance.^[7][5] DEX adds the reflexive sense “to hide, keep out of someone's way”.^[5] Its participle gave the adjective and adverb furișat and the phrase pe furișate “stealthily”.^[2][5]

Timeline

• c. 1560 – first record, in the Apostle of the priest Bratul.^[3]
• 1688 – să furișă “stole away” in the Bucharest Bible.^[2][4]
• 1716 – the variant înfurișa in a Mineiul.^[2]

Meanings

Verb

1. (reflexive) To sneak, to slip in, out or away without being noticed.^[5][4]
2. (transitive) To slip something somewhere secretly.^[5][4]
3. (reflexive, with de) To steal away from someone or somewhere.^[4]
4. (reflexive) To hide, to keep out of someone's way.^[5]

Word family

• furișat

Related words

• furiș
• fur
• fura

Usage notes

Pe furișate is a synonym of pe furiș “stealthily”.^[5]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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. furișa
3. ^ a b c d Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. furișa
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 956
5. ^ a b c d e f g h i DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 421
6. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 954
7. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 346