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Forms

armãnescu m (feminine armãneascã, plural armãneshtsã, feminine plural armãneshti or armãneshte)[1]

  • Feminine armãneascã, plural armãneshtsã, feminine plural armãneshti or armãneshte.[1]
  • Other spellings: rãmãnescu and rrãmãnescu in Wiktionary;[1] ARMĂNÉSCU, feminine armăneáscă, and ARMÎNÉSCU in Papahagi's dictionary;[2][3] Armînescu in the glossary to P. Papahagi's tales;[4] armânescu, with the variant arumânescu and the learned aromânescu, in DIARO;[5] arâmânésku, feminine arâmânęáska, in Nikolaidis's transcription;[6] aromunesk, feminine aromuneasko, in Weigand's notation.[7]
  • Pascu cites arîmînescu from Nikolaidis, armînescu from P. Papahagi, românescu from Boiagi and rrämänescu from another of P. Papahagi's works.[8]

Etymology

It is formed from Aromanian armãn1 (“Aromanian”) + -escu.[1][8] Pascu lists it among the derivatives of armîn, which he derives from Latin rōmānus (“Roman”);[8] Wiktionary explains the initial a- of the noun as the usual Aromanian outcome of Latin initial r-.[1] Cunia treats the adjective under the noun.[9] The Daco-Romanian counterpart is Romanian românesc.[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The oldest dated form is românescu, which Pascu cites from Boiagi's grammar of 1813 with the sense "Aromanian".[8]

Semantic evolution

The adjective means "of the Aromanians": Aromanian villages, customs or dress.[3][5][4] Its feminine armãneascã is also used as a noun, "the Aromanian language".[1] Nikolaidis glosses it with Greek words for both "Romanian" and "Vlach".[6]

Timeline

  • 1813 – românescu in Boiagi's grammar, as cited by Pascu.[8]
  • 1894 – aromunesk in Weigand's glossary.[7]
  • 1905 – Armînescu in the glossary to P. Papahagi's tales.[4]
  • 1909 – arâmânésku in Nikolaidis's dictionary.[6]

Meanings

Adjective

  1. Aromanian: of or belonging to the Aromanians, their language or their customs.[1][2][5]

Noun

  1. (feminine armãneascã) The Aromanian language.[1]
  • Romanian românesc

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 204
  3. ^ a b Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 147
  4. ^ a b c Papahagi, Pericle (1905), Basme aromâne și glosar, București: Academia Română, p. 536
  5. ^ a b c Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 78
  6. ^ a b c Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 67
  7. ^ a b Weigand, Gustav (1894), Die Aromunen: ethnographisch-philologisch-historische Untersuchungen, vol. II: Volksliteratur der Aromunen (with a glossary), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, p. 294
  8. ^ 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. 1, 40
  9. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 123