amintu
Pronunciation
- [aˈmin.tu][1]
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
- To earn, gain.[14][7][15][1]
- To win.[1][8]
- To give birth to.[14][7]
- (reflexive) To be born.[7][1][8]
- (reflexive, Clisura) To fall in love.[7]
- To profit from; also, to lose.[5]
Related words
- amintare
- amintat
- amintatic
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 58
- ^ Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 111
- ^ a b c d Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 31
- ^ a b c d Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 25
- ^ a b c d Pușcariu, Sextil (1905), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache I: Lateinisches Element, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. 8
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 218
- ^ Δασούλας, Φώτης (2013), Το βλαχικό ιδίωμα του Μετσόβου, 2nd ed.
- ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
- ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
- ^ 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)
- ^ 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