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Forms

shuplu m (plural shuplji)[1]

  • Plural shuplji.[2][1]
  • Other spellings: suplu and shub in Wiktionary;[1] suplu in Cunia;[3] ȘÚPLU in Papahagi's dictionary, which refers to súplu and șub;[4] σούπλου and σιούπλου (suplu, sjúplu), plural -πλι, in Nikolaidis's Greek script;[5] SUPLU, plural șuple, in Pascu's dictionary.[6]

Etymology

According to Papahagi it is borrowed from Albanian shupullë (“slap”).[4] Pascu files it among the Turkish elements, from Turkish sepele (“slap, box on the ear”), and compares Slavic words for a handful or the hollow of the hand, which Štrekelj had taken to a verb meaning "to seize".[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

The oldest dictionary record is Nikolaidis's of 1909, which glosses it with Modern Greek πυγμή (pygmí, “fist”) and γρόνθος (grónthos, “punch”).[5]

Semantic evolution

The word names both the clenched fist and a blow struck with it.[7][4][6] Cunia gives bush, bushtu and bushur as synonyms.[7]

Timeline

  • 1909 – suplu, sjúplu “fist, punch” in Nikolaidis's dictionary.[5]
  • 1925 – Pascu derives it from Turkish.[6]
  • 1963 – Papahagi derives it from Albanian.[8]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A fist.[7][4][5]
  2. A punch, a blow with the fist.[7][4][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 939
  3. ^ Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 987
  4. ^ a b c d e Papahagi, Tache (1974), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd augmented ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. 1135
  5. ^ a b c d Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 496
  6. ^ a b c d 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, 166
  7. ^ a b c d Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net)
  8. ^ Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1015