aclo

Forms

aclo^[1]

• Other forms: aco, clo, arco, acloea, aculea, anculea, aculo, aclotse, acotse, atseaclo and aclotsine in Wiktionary;^[1] ACLÓ, ACLÓIA and ACLÓȚE in Papahagi's dictionary;^[2] acló in Mihăileanu;^[3] aklo, aklotse and aklutsine in Weigand;^[4] ακλό, ακλότσε and ακολό in the Greek script of Nikolaidis, transcribed akló, aklótse, akoló.^[5]
• Pascu also lists acolé from Nikolaidis and Boiagi, and clo from Papahagi's tales.^[6]

Etymology

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum illōc (“look, there”),^[2][6][1][7] a compound of eccum (“here he is!”) and illōc (“to that place, there”).^[1][8]

The word is common to Eastern Romance: Romanian acolo (dialectally aclo in the Banat), Megleno-Romanian cola and Istro-Romanian colo.^[9][7] Candrea and Densusianu explain acolo as an assimilation of an older aculo.^[9] Ciorănescu compares Old French illuec.^[7]

In Latin, eccum "here he is!" is ecce (“look!”) with an accusative pronoun,^[8] and de Vaan derives ecce from Proto-Italic *ek and *-ke.^[10] Illōc is perhaps an old instrumental form of illīc (“there”).^[8]

Semantic evolution

The adverb means "there", both of place and of direction, "thither".^[11][2] Dalametra also records it as "here".^[6] Papahagi, Mihăileanu and Cunia record the curse acló si-l'i híbă "may it be there", that is, may he die.^[2][3][11]

Timeline

• 1894 – aklo “there” in Weigand's glossary.^[4]
• 1901 – acló in Mihăileanu's dictionary.^[3]
• 1909 – ακλό (akló) in Nikolaidis's dictionary.^[5]

Meanings

Adverb

1. There, in that place.^[1][11][2]
2. Thither, to that place.^[2][12]

Related words

• Romanian acolo

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 103
3. ^ a b c Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 4
4. ^ a b Weigand, Gustav (1894), Die Aromunen: ethnographisch-philologisch-historische Untersuchungen, vol. II: Volksliteratur der Aromunen (with a glossary), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, p. 290
5. ^ a b Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 14
6. ^ 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, 27
7. ^ 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)
8. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
9. ^ a b Candrea, I.-A.; Densusianu, Ov. (1907–1914), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române: elementele latine (A–Putea), București
10. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
11. ^ a b c Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net)
12. ^ Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 9