ashi

Forms

ashi^[1]

• Also ashe;^[2] Cunia lists ashã, asha, ashia, acshi, acshia, ashitsi and acshitsi with it,^[2] and Wiktionary ashe, ashã and acshi.^[1]
• Other spellings: AȘÍ, AȘÍA in Papahagi's dictionary;^[3] ași in Dalametra's Romanian-based spelling, with aoși,^[4] and in DIARO.^[5]
• Regional forms: Weigand records asi, asu and aksi, with asitse, asitsine and aksitsine;^[6] Pascu lists acși, acștia, acsé and axi.^[7]

Etymology

It is inherited from Late Latin ac sīc (“and so”),^[1][8] a Latin phrase of ac (“and”) and sīc (“thus, so”) that is attested in the Itinerarium Egeriae.^[1] Pascu derived it instead from a compound of eccum (“behold”) and sīc,^[7] and Pușcariu from sīc with a prefixed a-;^[9] the REW counts it among the compounds of sīc with the a- of the demonstratives.^[10] The Oxford Latin Dictionary explains sīc as the locative of an old demonstrative stem *so- with the particle -ce.^[11]

Its cognates are Romanian așa, Megleno-Romanian șa and Istro-Romanian aşå;^[8][12] further west, Spanish así and Italian così are formed from sīc in the same way.^[8][10]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pascu cites the word from Boiagi's grammar of 1813;^[7] Weigand's glossary of 1894 has asi “so”.^[6]

Semantic evolution

The word means “thus, in this way”, and before a noun “such”.^[13][3][1] DIARO records ași omu nu-amu vidutâ (“I have never seen such a man”) and ași și-ași (“so-so”).^[14]

Timeline

• 1813 – the word in Boiagi's grammar, as cited by Pascu.^[7]
• 1894 – asi “so” in Weigand's glossary, with aksi.^[6]
• 1906 – ași “so” in Dalametra's dictionary.^[4]
• 1925 – Pascu derives it from Latin eccum and sīc.^[7]

Meanings

Adverb

1. Thus, so, in this manner.^[13][3][1]
2. Such.^[1][14]

Related words

• Romanian așa

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g 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. 145
3. ^ a b c Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 226
4. ^ a b Dalametra, I. (1906), Dicționar macedo-român, București: Academia Română, p. 31
5. ^ Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 58
6. ^ a b c Weigand, Gustav (1894), Die Aromunen: ethnographisch-philologisch-historische Untersuchungen, vol. II: Volksliteratur der Aromunen (with a glossary), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, p. 295
7. ^ 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, 166
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. ^ Pușcariu, Sextil (1905), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache I: Lateinisches Element, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. 11
10. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
11. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
12. ^ Kovačec, August (1998), Istrorumunjsko-hrvatski rječnik (s gramatikom i tekstovima), Pula
13. ^ a b Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net)
14. ^ a b Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București