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yis n (plural yisi or yise)[1]

  • Other spellings: YIS, plural yíse, in Papahagi's dictionary;[2] visu, articled vislu, plural visile, in Mihăileanu's Romanian-based spelling;[3] Vis, plural vise, in P. Papahagi's glossary to his tales;[4] yis, plural vise, in Weigand's glossary.[5]

Etymology

The noun yis “dream” is inherited from Latin vīsum (“something seen, a vision”),[2][6][7] the neuter of the past participle of videō (“to see”).[8] In Latin it meant an appearance, especially one seen in a dream,[8] and the REW glosses it “dream”.[9] De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *uid-eh₁- (“to see”) for the verb.[10]

The word is common to the Eastern Romance languages: Romanian vis, Megleno-Romanian vis and Istro-Romanian vis.[6][11][12] Elsewhere it survives in Old French vis and Old Occitan vis, meaning “opinion”.[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

The oldest dictionary record is Weigand's glossary of 1894, which gives yis as “dream”.[5]

Semantic evolution

Cunia defines it as the images and thoughts one has while asleep, and figuratively as fancies one has while awake;[1] Papahagi's dictionary adds “vision”.[2] Dreaming is “seeing the dream”: Papahagi quotes tsi-vidzuĭ yislu că va s' mori “I dreamt that you would die”,[2] and P. Papahagi's tales have vidzu vislu cu oclji “he saw his dream with his own eyes”, that is, fulfilled.[4]

Timeline

  • 1894 – yis “dream”, plural vise, in Weigand's glossary.[5]
  • 1901 – visu “dream” in Mihăileanu's dictionary.[3]
  • 1905 – Vis in P. Papahagi's glossary to his tales.[4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A dream.[1][2][5]
  2. A vision.[2]
  3. (figurative) A fancy, a daydream.[1]
  • nyisedz
  • Romanian vis

References

  1. ^ 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), p. 1111
  2. ^ a b c d e f Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 526
  3. ^ a b Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 539
  4. ^ a b c Papahagi, Pericle (1905), Basme aromâne și glosar, București: Academia Română, p. 739
  5. ^ a b c d Weigand, Gustav (1894), Die Aromunen: ethnographisch-philologisch-historische Untersuchungen, vol. II: Volksliteratur der Aromunen (with a glossary), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, p. 339
  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. ^ a b Pușcariu, Sextil (1905), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache I: Lateinisches Element, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. 178
  8. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  9. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
  10. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  11. ^ Capidan, Theodor (1935), Meglenoromânii III: Dicționar meglenoromân, București: Academia Română, p. 328
  12. ^ Kovačec, August (1998), Istrorumunjsko-hrvatski rječnik (s gramatikom i tekstovima), Pula