aryi

Forms

aryi f (plural aryi)^[1]

• Also written arye, and arghi, arghe, arii or arie.^[1][2]
• Other spellings: ÁRYE, plural áryi, and ÁRIE, plural áriĭ, in Papahagi's dictionary;^[3][4] arie, plural arii, and arye in Pascu's sources;^[5] arje in Meyer's reading of Kavalliotis's word list.^[6]
• Regional forms: áryie, plural áryie, in the dialect of Metsovo.^[7]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin ārea (“open space; threshing floor”),^[5][4][1] as Meyer already saw in his edition of Kavalliotis.^[6] Romanian arie and Megleno-Romanian aryie have the same word.^[8][9] Further west it gave Italian aia, French aire, Spanish era and Portuguese eira;^[8][10] Ciorănescu also compares Albanian arë.^[8]

The origin of the Latin word is unclear.^[11][12] The OLD calls it doubtful and suggests a link with āreō (“to be dry”);^[11] de Vaan lists ārea among the derivatives of that verb, from Proto-Italic *ās-ē- and Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₁s-eh₁- (“to be dry”), but notes that it is not a regular derivative and would have meant a space cleared by burning.^[12]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Kavalliotis's word list of 1770, where the word, which Meyer reads arje, translates Modern Greek ἁλώνι (alóni, “threshing floor”).^[6]

Semantic evolution

In Latin the word meant first an open space clear of buildings, and also a threshing floor.^[11][10] Aromanian kept the threshing floor: Cunia describes the levelled ground where horses, tied to a pole in the middle, go round and tread the grain out of the ears, and also gives the wider sense of a flat, dry open place.^[2] It has a synonym of Greek origin, aloni.^[2][3]

Timeline

• 1770 – arje (Meyer's reading) “threshing floor” in Kavalliotis's word list.^[6]
• 1925 – Pascu derives arie from Latin ārea.^[5]
• 1963 – ÁRYE and ÁRIE “threshing floor” in Papahagi's dictionary.^[3][4]

Meanings

Noun

1. A threshing floor, the levelled ground on which horses tread out the grain.^[2][3][7][1]
2. A flat, dry open place, such as a plain.^[2]

Related words

• Romanian arie

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 137
3. ^ a b c d Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 196
4. ^ a b c Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 198
5. ^ 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, 38
6. ^ a b c d Meyer, Gustav (1895), Albanesische Studien IV: Das griechisch-südrumänisch-albanesische Wörterverzeichnis des Kavalliotis, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, phil.-hist. Classe 132, p. 16
7. ^ a b Δασούλας, Φώτης (2013), Το βλαχικό ιδίωμα του Μετσόβου, 2nd ed.
8. ^ 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)
9. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Densusianu, Ov. (1907–1914), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române: elementele latine (A–Putea), București
10. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
11. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
12. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill