guturai

Forms

guturai n (plural guturaiuri or guturaie)^[1] In Moldavia, Bucovina and Bessarabia the word is gutunar: „Gutunariul până ce nu-i trece periodul lui, mai nu se poate vindeca” “a cold can hardly be cured before it has run its course”.^[2]

Etymology

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *gutturālium, from Latin gutturālia, the neuter plural of gutturālis (“of the throat”), from guttur (“throat”).^{[3][4][5][1][6]} Ciorănescu compares Latin gutturnia (“a swelling”).^[3] The REW lists the word among the derivatives of the Latin noun.^[7]

The variant gutunar shows a crossing with Serbo-Croatian guntura and gunturač, following Scriban; the DA instead derives it from a form guturar, with the second /r/ changed to /n/.^[3] Wiktionary also thinks it influenced by Serbian.^[1] The neologism gutural is a doublet of the word.^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in the Anonymus Caransebesiensis, a Romanian–Latin glossary that Tiktin dates to about 1670 and MDA2 to 1650–1700; it has the Banat form guturar.^[2][5]

Semantic evolution

The word names a cold, the inflammation of the nasal lining.^[4][8] In Muntenia guturai măgăresc is whooping cough.^[9] Hasdeu's questionnaire of 1884–1885 records guturai for an illness of cattle, which MDA2 compares with Bulgarian гутурач (guturač).^[5]

Timeline

• c. 1670 – guturar in the Anonymus Caransebesiensis.^[2][5]
• 1884–1885 – a disease of cattle, in the answers to Hasdeu's questionnaire.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A cold, coryza: a contagious viral illness with inflammation of the nasal lining and a watery discharge.^[4][5][1]

Word family

• guturăi
• guturăios

Related words

• gât
• gutural

Usage notes

The plural is guturaiuri, also guturaie.^[4] MDA2 lists a separate regional guturai for a disease of cattle.^[5]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. guturai
3. ^ a b c 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. guturai
4. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1, 455
5. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1034
6. ^ a b Gabinschi, Marcu (2001), Dicționar de dublete etimologice ale limbii române, 2nd ed., Chișinău: Litera, p. 110
7. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 3930
8. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 431
9. ^ Marin, Maria; Mărgărit, Iulia, Glosar dialectal. Muntenia, București: Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti”, p. s.v. guturai