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Forms

acasã (adverb)[1]

  • Other spellings: ACÁSĂ in Papahagi's dictionary;[2] acâsă in Dalametra;[3] acasâ in DIARO;[4] Acasă in the glossary of P. Papahagi's tales.[5]
  • Regional forms: akas, in pun akas, in Weigand's texts;[6] acâs in the speech of the Aromanians of Albania, who drop the final vowel after a stressed syllable;[7] ak'asā in the village of Turia.[8]

Etymology

In Papahagi's view it is from Latin ad (“to”) + casa (“hut, house”), the Latin phrase with the noun in the accusative;[2] Pascu files it as a derivative of casã (“house”).[9] Istro-Romanian has acåsa (“at home; home”),[10] while Megleno-Romanian uses casă itself as the adverb "home".[11]

The Latin noun meant a small, humble dwelling, a cottage or hut.[12][13] Its origin is not clear: Walde and Hofmann see in it a dialectal development of a form built on a root meaning "to plait", while de Vaan also considers a link with the European words for a hut or dwelling place.[13]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pascu quotes the adverb from Boiagi's grammar of 1813, with the sense "at home".[9]

Semantic evolution

It means "home, at home", both of going home and of being at home.[2][4] Cunia defines it as the place where a person lives with the family, which can be the house and also the village, town or country.[1] DIARO records the phrases pi-acasâ "by the house, home" and pânâ acasâ "as far as home",[4] and Papahagi quotes the saying ğiónile nu moáre acásă ("the brave man does not die at home").[2]

Timeline

  • 1813 – recorded in Boiagi's grammar, one of the sources Pascu names for the word.[9]
  • 1894 – akas “home(wards)” in Weigand's glossary.[6]
  • 1905 – Acasă in the glossary of P. Papahagi's tales.[5]

Meanings

Adverb

  1. Home, to one's house.[2][6]
  2. At home, in one's house, village or country.[1][4]
  • casã
  • Istro-Romanian acåsa

References

  1. ^ a b c Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 8
  2. ^ a b c d e Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 51
  3. ^ Dalametra, I. (1906), Dicționar macedo-român, București: Academia Română
  4. ^ a b c d Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 6
  5. ^ a b Papahagi, Pericle (1905), Basme aromâne și glosar, București: Academia Română, p. 507
  6. ^ a b c Weigand, Gustav (1894), Die Aromunen: ethnographisch-philologisch-historische Untersuchungen, vol. II: Volksliteratur der Aromunen (with a glossary), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, p. 290
  7. ^ Capidan, Theodor (1932), Aromânii: dialectul aromân. Studiu lingvistic, București: Academia Română (Academia Română, Studii și cercetări XX), p. 228
  8. ^ Бара, Мариана; Каль, Теде; Соболев, Андрей Н. (2005), Южноарумынский говор села Турия (Малый диалектологический атлас балканских языков, серия монографий 1), p. 360
  9. ^ a b c Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 1, 58
  10. ^ Kovačec, August (1998), Istrorumunjsko-hrvatski rječnik (s gramatikom i tekstovima), Pula
  11. ^ Capidan, Theodor (1935), Meglenoromânii III: Dicționar meglenoromân, București: Academia Română, p. 63
  12. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  13. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill