piedin

Forms

piedin n (plural piedine)^[1] In Oltenia and Transylvania it is also chedin, and Ciorănescu records chiedin.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *pedinus, a derivative of pēs (“foot”), the cloth's “foot” being its lower, unwoven end.^{[3][4][5][6][1]} Candrea proposed it, and Pușcariu, Candrea–Densusianu and the REW follow him.^[3][7] The REW finds the Latin derivative morphologically not quite unobjectionable.^[7]

South of the Danube it is Aromanian cheadin, which means a well-spun woollen thread for sewing, and Megleno-Romanian piadin.^[3][8][9] The Romance cognates are words of the weavers in Italian dialects, Italian pedano, pedene and Sicilian pèdinu, and the standard penero “fringe of unwoven warp”, which Nocentini derives from the same Latin form with metathesis.^{[6][2][10][11][1]}

Scriban also considered Albanian pedim “fringe” as the source.^[12] Jokl showed the reverse: the northern Gheg word was borrowed from Romanian, probably from medieval Romanians near the Drin, and Ciorănescu and Çabej agree.^[13][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Tiktin's and MDA2's first record is Clemens's Romanian–German dictionary of 1821, which glosses piedin as German Weberzettel, a weaver's warp.^[2][5]

Semantic evolution

The word has stayed a term of home weaving: the unwoven ends of the warp left at the end of a cloth, which are cut off when the cloth is taken from the loom.^[4][14] It is popular and regional, with the synonym uruioc.^[5][15] In Aromanian the word moved to the thread itself, a fine spun wool thread.^[8][9]

Timeline

• 1821 – piedin “weaver's warp” in Clemens's dictionary.^[2]
• 1901 – piedin in Rădulescu-Codin's glossary of Muscel.^[16]

Meanings

Noun

1. (popular) the unwoven warp threads at the end of a cloth, cut off when it is taken off the loom; thrums.^[4][5][1]

Related words

• picior
• Aromanian cheadin
• Latin pēs

Usage notes

Rădulescu-Codin recorded in Muscel the belief that whoever wears clothes sewn with piedin loses his mind.^[16]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. piedin
3. ^ 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. piedin
4. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 815
5. ^ 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, 372
6. ^ a b Pușcariu, Sextil (1905), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache I: Lateinisches Element, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. 115
7. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 6354
8. ^ a b Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 595
9. ^ a b Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 282
10. ^ Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier
11. ^ Cortelazzo, Manlio; Zolli, Paolo (1999), Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, 2nd ed. by Manlio Cortelazzo and Michele A. Cortelazzo, Bologna: Zanichelli
12. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 977
13. ^ Çabej, Eqrem (2002), Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes VI (N–Rr), Tiranë, p. 158
14. ^ Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. piedin
15. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. piedin
16. ^ a b Rădulescu-Codin, C. (1901), O seamă de cuvinte din Muscel, Câmpulung, p. 57