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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]
  • 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