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Etymology and origin of the Aromanian word mãn

Confidence
Established
Formation
Inherited
First attested
1901 Mihăileanu's dictionary
Inherited from
Latin maneo
Ultimate origin
Latin maneō
Etymology tree
inherited borrowed derived
Latin maneo
Aromanian mãn
From the same root
Latin emaneo ← maneo
Latin intermaneo ← maneo
Latin mansio ← maneo
Latin mansus ← maneo

Forms

mãn (third-person singular mãni or mãne, participle masã)[1]

  • Verb: third person singular mãni or mãne, participle masã.[1] Cunia lists the verb of the second conjugation under armãn.[2]
  • Other spellings: mãnu in Wiktionary;[1] mănu, aorist maşu, participle masă, infinitive măneare, in Mihăileanu's Romanian-based spelling;[3] Pascu heads it by the infinitive mineare.[4]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin maneō (“to remain, stay”),[4][1] which de Vaan traces to Proto-Italic *m(o)n-ē- and Proto-Indo-European *mn-eh₁- (“to remain”).[5]

In Romanian, mânea has narrowed to spending the night somewhere, the sense Pascu also gives for the Aromanian verb.[6][4] Ciorănescu compares Italian manere, Old Occitan maner and Old French manoir, and Albanian mënoj, which seems to come from Romanian.[6] Candrea and Densusianu note that Old Romanian still had the general sense of staying or remaining.[7]

Semantic evolution

Beside the general sense "to stay, remain",[1] Mihăileanu gives "to spend the night", with the examples masimu tu unu trúpu agru "we spent the night in a wild valley" and va s'mânemu seara Bitule "we will stay the night in Bitola".[3] Pascu records only the sense "to spend the night somewhere".[4]

Timeline

  • 1901 – mănu “to remain, spend the night” in Mihăileanu's dictionary.[3]
  • 1925 – Pascu derives it from Latin manere.[4]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To stay, remain.[1][3]
  2. To spend the night somewhere.[3][4]

Usage notes

The spelling mãn also heads Cunia's first-conjugation verb "to drive, lead", aorist mãnai,[2] which Mihăileanu writes mănu, aorist mănaŭ.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f 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. 624
  3. ^ a b c d e Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 278
  4. ^ a b c d e f 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, 119
  5. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  6. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001)
  7. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Densusianu, Ov. (1907–1914), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române: elementele latine (A–Putea), București
  8. ^ Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 277

Related etymologies

  • featã · also from Latin
  • cu · also from Latin
  • cã · also from Latin
  • tu · also from Latin
  • shi · also from Latin
  • di · also from Latin
  • am · also from Latin
  • yin · also from Latin
Cite this entry

“Mãn.” Etymologically, 26 Oct. 2026, etymologically.com/rup/m%C3%A3n. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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