bãnedz

Forms

bãnedz (third-person singular bãneadzã, participle bãnatã)^[1]

• Class I verb: aorist bãnai, participle bãnatã, infinitive bãnare.^[2][1][3]
• Other spellings: bãnedzu in Wiktionary;^[1] BĂNÉDZU in Papahagi's dictionary, which also records BÎNÉDZU;^[2][4] bănédzu in Mihăileanu's Romanian-based spelling;^[5] μπᾶνέτζου (bânétzu) in the Greek script of Nikolaidis;^[6] bänedzu in its editor's reading of Kavalliotis's word list.^[7]
• Regional forms: bănédzu in the dialect of Metsovo.^[8] Mihăileanu's example places it in Clisura.^[5]

Etymology

It is from Aromanian banã (“life”) + -edz, the noun banã "life" with the verb suffix -edz.^[1][2][6] Wiktionary compares Albanian banoj (“to dwell”).^[1]

The origin of banã is disputed.^{[9][10][9][10]} Pascu, after Jokl, takes it from an Albanian word for "dwelling, abode", with the same shift from "dwell" to "live" as in Albanian and Russian verbs.^[9] Papahagi notes this proposal, bane (“dwelling”) from northern Albanian, but points out that the word is missing from the Albanian dictionaries he checked.^[10] Meyer, editing Kavalliotis, mentions Miklosich's derivation from ben-, ban-, an Albanian verb stem, and objects that this verb only means "to do, to make".^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Kavalliotis's word list of 1770, where it translates Modern Greek ζω (zo, “to live”); its editor reads it bänedzu.^[7]

Semantic evolution

The main sense is "to live, be alive".^[2][1] In Metsovo it also means "to spend one's life", "to dwell" and "to live together";^[8] Vrabie gives it for English "reside" and "inhabit".^[11][12] Papahagi quotes the wish s' bănați "may you live" in a blessing.^[2]

Timeline

• 1770 – bänedzu “I live” in Kavalliotis's word list, as its editor reads it.^[7]
• 1901 – bănédzu “to live” in Mihăileanu's dictionary.^[5]
• 1909 – bânétzu in Nikolaidis's dictionary, derived from bánă.^[6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To live, be alive.^[2][1][5]
2. To spend one's life.^[8]
3. To dwell, reside.^[8][11]
4. (Metsovo) To live together.^[8]

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 262
3. ^ Κατσάνης, Νικόλαος; Ντίνας, Κωνσταντίνος (1990), Γραμματική της κοινής κουτσοβλαχικής, Θεσσαλονίκη: Αρχείο Κουτσοβλαχικών Μελετών, p. 137
4. ^ Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 212
5. ^ a b c d Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 64
6. ^ a b c Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 312
7. ^ 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. 53
8. ^ a b c d e Δασούλας, Φώτης (2013), Το βλαχικό ιδίωμα του Μετσόβου, 2nd ed.
9. ^ 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. 2, 222
10. ^ a b c Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 191
11. ^ a b Vrabie, Emil (2000), An English-Aromanian (Macedo-Romanian) Dictionary, University, Mississippi: Romance Monographs, p. 570
12. ^ Vrabie, Emil (2000), An English-Aromanian (Macedo-Romanian) Dictionary, University, Mississippi: Romance Monographs, p. 402