noaten

Forms

noaten m (plural noateni)^[1] The variant noatin is eastern, noaten western;^[2][3] Dosoftei has the feminine: „lâna noatină” “yearling wool”.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin annōtinus (“a year old, of last year”), from annus (“year”).^{[4][5][6][3][1]} Ciorănescu cites Pușcariu, Candrea–Densusianu and the REW.^[4][7] It survives in all four branches: Aromanian noaten, Megleno-Romanian noatin and Istro-Romanian notir.^[4] The Latin word also gave Old French antenois “yearling sheep”.^[7][4] Hungarian nótin is a loan from Romanian.^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin dates the first record to 1463.^[3] In Romanian texts MDA2 has it first in Dosoftei's lives of the saints (1682–1686), where moths eat the yearling wool, „lâna noatină”.^[6][3]

Semantic evolution

As an adjective it was said of sheep, rams and lambs a year old.^[8] As a noun it names a lamb or young sheep from weaning to about two years; the age limit varies by region from six months to two or three years.^[6][5] In the south and in Moldova it is also a colt, and it names the dark wool shorn from a lamb in its second year.^[2][5][9] A price list of 1817 values noatenul beside the barren ewe.^[3] In Maramureș it is also a carpenter's lathe.^[10]

Timeline

• 1463 – the first record Tiktin cites.^[3]
• 1682–1686 – lâna noatină in Dosoftei's lives of the saints.^[6][3]
• 1817 – noatenul in a document listing the value of sheep.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. (popular) a lamb or young ewe from weaning to two years old; also as an adjective, miel noaten.^[5][1]
2. (regional) a colt or filly from six months to two or three years old.^[5][11]
3. (regional) dark wool of a lamb or young ewe shorn in its second year.^[5]

Related words

• Aromanian noaten
• Latin annus

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 874
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. noaten
4. ^ a b c d e 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. noatin
5. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 718
6. ^ 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. 2, 160
7. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 485
8. ^ Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. noaten
9. ^ Stati, Vasile (2003), Dicționar moldovenesc-românesc, Chișinău, p. 201
10. ^ Ștef, Dorin (2011), Dicționar de regionalisme și arhaisme din Maramureș, Baia Mare: Ethnologica, p. s.v. noaten
11. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. noaten