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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