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Forms

deadun[1]

  • Other spellings: deadunu and diadun in Wiktionary;[1] DEADÚN in Papahagi's dictionary;[2] deadúnu in Mihăileanu;[3] deadunu in DIARO;[4] Ντεαντούνου in Kavalliotis's Greek script, which Meyer reads deadunu.[5]
  • Contracted forms: dadun in Cunia and Papahagi;[6][7] dadun, dadin and deadăn in Dalametra.[8] Capidan explains dadun as a contraction of the vowels of deadun.[9]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin dē (“from, of”) + ad (“to”) + ūnum (“one”), as Papahagi and Meyer derive it.[2][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Kavalliotis's Greek–Aromanian–Albanian word list of 1770, where Ντεαντούνου, read deadunu by Meyer, translates Modern Greek μαζί (mazí, “together”) (misprinted in the list).[5]

Semantic evolution

The word means together, of people or things in one place or doing something side by side.[10][2] It also means in common: Papahagi quotes túte li-avém dadún ("we have them all in common"), Dalametra has di-dadin "in common", and DIARO bană deadunu, a life lived in common.[7][8][4]

Timeline

  • 1770 – Ντεαντούνου (deadunu) “together” in Kavalliotis's word list.[5]
  • 1901 – deadúnu “together” in Mihăileanu's dictionary.[3]
  • 1906 – dadun and deadăn “together” in Dalametra's dictionary.[8]

Meanings

Adverb

  1. together.[10][1][2]
  2. In common.[7][8][4]

Usage notes

Cunia and Papahagi give mpriunã, ãmpriunã and dipriunã as synonyms, and Cunia also barra-bara.[10][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 464
  3. ^ a b Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 140
  4. ^ a b c Caragiu Marioțeanu, Matilda et al. (1997), Dicționar aromân (macedo-vlah) DIARO, A–D, București, p. 282
  5. ^ 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. 80
  6. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 372
  7. ^ a b c d Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 456
  8. ^ a b c d Dalametra, I. (1906), Dicționar macedo-român, București: Academia Română, p. 75
  9. ^ Capidan, Theodor (1932), Aromânii: dialectul aromân. Studiu lingvistic, București: Academia Română (Academia Română, Studii și cercetări XX), p. 290
  10. ^ a b c Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 381