haios

Forms

haios m or n (feminine singular haioasă, masculine plural haioși, feminine/neuter plural haioase)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian hai + -os.^[2][3][1][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Dimitrescu's dictionary of recent words quotes it from a newspaper of 10 December 1975, in a colloquial or slang sentence about how “funny” a fellow is.^[5] MDA2 gives as its first record the second edition of DEX, of 1998.^[3]

Semantic evolution

The word belongs to colloquial speech and slang: Dimitrescu labels it familiar and slang, and DEX and MDA2 label it familiar.^[5][2][3] Its senses are “amusing”, “likeable” and “witty”;^[2] NODEX also gives “eccentric, extravagant”.^[6][4]

Timeline

• 1975 – a newspaper quotation of 10 December, the first record known to Dimitrescu.^[5]
• 1998 – registered in the second edition of DEX, MDA2's first record.^[3]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (colloquial) funny, amusing: full of haz.^[2][3][1]
2. (colloquial) likeable, pleasant, cute.^[2][3][6]
3. (colloquial) Fond of jokes, witty.^[6]
4. (colloquial) Eccentric, extravagant.^[4]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1, 457
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1037
4. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. haios
5. ^ a b c Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. haiós
6. ^ a b c Volceanov, George (2007), Dicționar de argou al limbii române, București: Niculescu, p. s.v. haios