tini

Forms

tini^[1]

• Other spellings: tine in Wiktionary and Cunia;^[1][2] TÍNE in Papahagi's dictionary;^[3] tine in Weigand;^[4] Tive in the Greek script of Kavalliotis's word list, which Meyer reads tine;^[5] τίνε in Nikolaidis, transcribed tíne.^[6]
• Short forms: accusative ti;^[2][7] the dative is a ția (stressed) and ți, îți (unstressed).^[3][7]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin *te-ne according to Papahagi, an extended form of tē (“you (accusative)”);^[3] Wiktionary also traces it to tē, with the same ending as mini "I, me".^[1] Nikolaidis saw in it Latin tū (“you”) with an added ending.^[6] Papahagi compares the accusative Albanian tynë (“you”).^[3]

Its cognates are the accusative Romanian tine and Istro-Romanian tire.^[8]

Latin tē is the accusative of tū; de Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *tē, from Proto-Indo-European *tue.^[9]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Kavalliotis's word list of 1770, where Tive translates Modern Greek εσύ (esí, “you”).^[5]

Semantic evolution

The pronoun is the stressed form of the second person singular, used as subject and as object, often after pri.^[10][3] Papahagi quotes scoálă tine ta s' șed míne ("get up, you, so that I may sit").^[3]

Timeline

• 1770 – Tive “you” in Kavalliotis's word list.^[5]
• 1894 – tine in Weigand's glossary.^[4]
• 1906 – tini “you” in Dalametra's dictionary.^[11]

Meanings

Pronoun

1. You (singular), as subject or object.^{[1][10][3][11]}

Related words

• mini
• Romanian tine

References

1. ^ a b c d e 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. 1015
3. ^ a b c d e f g Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1034
4. ^ a b Weigand, Gustav (1894), Die Aromunen: ethnographisch-philologisch-historische Untersuchungen, vol. II: Volksliteratur der Aromunen (with a glossary), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, p. 333
5. ^ a b c 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. 50
6. ^ a b Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 533
7. ^ a b Papahagi, Pericle (1905), Basme aromâne și glosar, București: Academia Română, p. 713
8. ^ Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001)
9. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
10. ^ a b Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net)
11. ^ a b Dalametra, I. (1906), Dicționar macedo-român, București: Academia Română, p. 205