noi

Forms

noi^[1]

• Nominative and stressed accusative noi; short accusative nã, n.^[2]{K} The dative is a noauã or a nao, short nã.^[3][1] Pascu records the datives a noauă, a noao, anao and nă, ni, ne, n-, and the accusatives noi, nă, ne.^[4]
• Other spellings: NOI in Pascu;^[4] nóí in Mihăileanu's Romanian-based spelling;^[5] noi in Dalametra.^[6]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin nōs (“we, us”),^{[4][1][7][8][9]} with a final -i that has been explained in several ways: Pascu sees in it an added ending,^[4] Candrea and Densusianu the regular change of final -s to -i in stressed monosyllables, as in Romanian trei "three",^[9] and Ciorănescu, who calls the ending unclear, reports Rohlfs's view that it comes from the oblique forms, as from the dative nōbīs.^[7] The dative noauã continues nōbīs, and the short nã the archaic dative nis that Festus records.^[4][7][10] De Vaan traces nōs to Proto-Italic *nōs (“we, us”) and the accusative Proto-Indo-European *nōs.^[11]

The pronoun is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian noi, Megleno-Romanian noi and Istro-Romanian noi.^[7][12][13] Further west it gave Italian noi, French nous and Spanish nos.^[14][7]

Earliest recorded meaning

Pascu lists Boiagi's grammar of 1813 among his sources for the pronoun.^[4]

Timeline

• 1813 – the pronoun in Boiagi's grammar, as cited by Pascu.^[4]
• 1901 – nóí “we” in Mihăileanu's dictionary.^[5]
• 1906 – noi in Dalametra's dictionary.^[6]

Meanings

Pronoun

1. We (nominative).^[2][1][5]
2. Us (stressed accusative).^[2][1]

Related words

• Romanian noi

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ 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. 751
3. ^ Vrabie, Emil (2000), An English-Aromanian (Macedo-Romanian) Dictionary, University, Mississippi: Romance Monographs, p. 725
4. ^ a b c d e f g 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, 128
5. ^ a b c Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 367
6. ^ a b Dalametra, I. (1906), Dicționar macedo-român, București: Academia Română, p. 149
7. ^ a b c d e Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001)
8. ^ Pușcariu, Sextil (1905), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache I: Lateinisches Element, Heidelberg: Carl Winter
9. ^ a b Candrea, I.-A.; Densusianu, Ov. (1907–1914), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române: elementele latine (A–Putea), București
10. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
11. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
12. ^ Kovačec, August (1998), Istrorumunjsko-hrvatski rječnik (s gramatikom i tekstovima), Pula
13. ^ Byhan, Arthur (1899), Istrorumänisches Glossar, Sechster Jahresbericht des Instituts für rumänische Sprache zu Leipzig: 174–366
14. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter