atumtsea

Forms

atumtsea^[1]

• Variants listed by Cunia: atumtsealui, atuntsea, atunts, atuntsealui, atumtsinea, atumtsina, atumts, tumtsea.^[2] Wiktionary also has astumsina.^[1]
• Other spellings: ATÚMȚEA in Papahagi's dictionary, which also records ATÚMȚINEA, ATÚNȚEA and ATÚNȚÍ;^[3] atămția and atimțialui in Dalametra;^[4] atumțea, with the rare a(s)tumțea and a(s)tumțina, in DIARO;^[5] atumți in Nikolaidis, as Pascu reports.^[6]
• Weigand's texts have both atumtsea and atuntsea.^[7] Capidan notes -m- for older -n- before ts, as in frîmte.^[8]

Etymology

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *ad tunce (“at that time”),^[3][1] which Pascu explains as ad (“to, at”) and tunc (“then”) reinforced with the particle -ce.^[6] Ciorănescu reconstructs *ad tunc ce.^[9] De Vaan explains tunc as the more emphatic Proto-Italic *tom-ke beside tum (“then”), from Proto-Indo-European *tom, an accusative of the demonstrative.^[10]

It is common to Eastern Romance: Romanian atunci (also atuncea), Megleno-Romanian tunțea and Istro-Romanian atunț.^[9][11] The Late Latin compound ad tunc is the source of Catalan adonchs and Spanish entonces.^[9]

Earliest recorded meaning

Capidan quotes atumtsea from Daniil of Moscopole's text, the oldest record the sources give.^[8]

Semantic evolution

The basic sense is "then, at that time".^[2][3] It also means "next, then" in a sequence,^[1][2] and "in that case, so", as DIARO's examples show.^[5][12]

Timeline

• 1794–1802 – atumtsea in Daniil of Moscopole, as cited by Capidan.^[8]
• 1813 – in Boiagi's grammar, as cited by Pascu.^[6]
• 1894 – atumtsea and atuntsea in Weigand's glossary.^[7]
• 1906 – atămția in Dalametra's dictionary.^[4]

Meanings

Adverb

1. Then, at that time.^[2][3][1]
2. Next, afterwards.^[1][2]
3. In that case, so.^[5][12]

Related words

• Romanian atunci

References

1. ^ a b c d e f 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. 159
3. ^ a b c d Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 176
4. ^ a b Dalametra, I. (1906), Dicționar macedo-român, București: Academia Română, p. 32
5. ^ a b c Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 96
6. ^ 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, 46
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. 296
8. ^ a b c Capidan, Theodor (1932), Aromânii: dialectul aromân. Studiu lingvistic, București: Academia Română (Academia Română, Studii și cercetări XX), p. 342
9. ^ 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)
10. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
11. ^ Popovici, Iosif (1909), Dialectele romîne din Istria II: texte și glosar, Halle a. S., p. 88
12. ^ a b Bara, Mariana (2024), Dictsiunarlu ti cathi dzuuã, online at dixionline.net