aerã

Forms

aerã f^[1]

• No plural in Cunia and DDA;^[2][3] Pascu gives a plural aeri.^[4]
• Other spellings: air, airu and erã in Wiktionary;^[1] AÉRĂ in Papahagi's dictionary;^[3] aerâ in DIARO;^[5] αέρα (aéra), plural aéri, in Nikolaidis's Greek script.^[6]
• In the dialect of Metsovo it is aéră, plural aéruri.^[7]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Modern Greek αέρας (aéras, “air; wind”),^[3][4] and Ciorănescu sets this form, from Greek, beside aeru, which he takes from Latin.^[8] REW instead files it under Latin āēr (“air”), through the Greek accusative form that also gave Italian aria;^[9] Wiktionary takes this form probably from Greek, perhaps from Latin, and its variants rather from Latin.^[1] Pascu compares Albanian erë (“air, wind”).^[4]

The Greek word is the medieval αέρας (aéras), from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air, mist”); through the Latin loan it spread to the languages of Europe.^[10][11] Its origin is uncertain: Meillet derived it from ἀείρω (aeírō, “to raise”), which leaves the long first vowel unexplained, and Kiparsky from a form related to αὔρα (aúra, “breeze”).^[12]

Semantic evolution

DDA glosses the word as air, breeze and the sky above, with ánģil'ï cîntă tu aéră "angels sing in the air".^[3] Pascu gives air and wind,^[4] and REW notes a sense "coolness".^[9] In Metsovo it is the air we breathe, a wind or draught, and figuratively ease.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. Air.^[2][1][3]
2. A breeze, wind.^[3][4][7]
3. The sky, the ether.^[3]

Related words

• Romanian aer

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 21
3. ^ a b c d e f g Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 111
4. ^ a b c d e 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. 2, 6
5. ^ Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 22
6. ^ Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 12
7. ^ a b c Δασούλας, Φώτης (2013), Το βλαχικό ιδίωμα του Μετσόβου, 2nd ed.
8. ^ Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001)
9. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
10. ^ Babiniotis, Georgios (2010), Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek], Athens: Κέντρο Λεξικολογίας
11. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
12. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10, Leiden; Boston: Brill