amintu

Forms

amintu (participle amintatã)^[1]

• First conjugation: aorist amintai, imperfect amintam, participle amintatã, infinitive amintari or amintare.^[2]
• Other spellings: AMÍNTU (with mi for the reflexive) in Papahagi's dictionary;^[3] αμίντου (amintu), aorist αμιντάϊ, in Nikolaidis;^[4] amíntu, amintáĭ, amintátă, amintáre in Mihăileanu;^[5] a fourth-conjugation amintescu in Weigand, as Pușcariu reports.^[6]
• Regional forms: amindu, which Papahagi refers to Dalametra and Wiktionary gives as an alternative form;^[7][1][8] amíntu, infinitive amintáre, in the dialect of Metsovo.^[9]

Etymology

It is probably inherited from Late Latin augmentō (“to increase”),^[7][6][4][1] a rare verb formed from augmentum (“increase, growth”),^[10][1] itself from augeō (“to increase”) with the suffix -mentum.^[11] REW instead gives ēmendō (“to correct, improve”), under which it files the infinitive amindari "to gain, get";^[12] Papahagi rejects that derivation.^[7] Pușcariu and Nikolaidis compare Sicilian umintari.^[6][4]

De Vaan traces augeō to Proto-Italic *augeje/o- and Proto-Indo-European *h₂eug- (“to grow”).^[13]

Semantic evolution

Nikolaidis glosses the verb with "to increase, acquire, win, bear, give birth", which shows the Latin sense of increase beside the Aromanian ones.^[4] The main senses are to earn or win,^[14][7][1] and to give birth, with the reflexive "to be born".^[14][7][1] In Clisura the reflexive also means to fall in love.^[7] Mihăileanu records it also for "to profit" and even "to lose": amintáși vérea "you lost the earring".^[5]

Timeline

• 1894 – amintu “to acquire, win, get” in Weigand's glossary.^[15]
• 1901 – amíntu “to gain, profit, lose” in Mihăileanu's dictionary.^[5]
• 1905 – Pușcariu derives it from Latin augmentare.^[6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To earn, gain.^{[14][7][15][1]}
2. To win.^[1][8]
3. To give birth to.^[14][7]
4. (reflexive) To be born.^[7][1][8]
5. (reflexive, Clisura) To fall in love.^[7]
6. To profit from; also, to lose.^[5]

Related words

• amintare
• amintat
• amintatic

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 58
3. ^ 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 Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 31
5. ^ a b c d Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 25
6. ^ a b c d Pușcariu, Sextil (1905), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache I: Lateinisches Element, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. 8
7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 93
8. ^ a b c Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 218
9. ^ Δασούλας, Φώτης (2013), Το βλαχικό ιδίωμα του Μετσόβου, 2nd ed.
10. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
11. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
12. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
13. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
14. ^ a b c d Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net)
15. ^ a b Weigand, Gustav (1894), Die Aromunen: ethnographisch-philologisch-historische Untersuchungen, vol. II: Volksliteratur der Aromunen (with a glossary), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, p. 292