‛Am obosit’ şi ‛mă odihnesc’ în graiurile dacoromâne. Istoria cuvintelor şi a variantelor fonetice şi morfologice (I)

AM OBOSIT ‘I am exhausted’ AND MĂ ODIHNESC ‘I am resting’ IN THE DACO-ROMANIAN LOCAL IDIOMS. A HISTORY OF THE WORDS AND THEIR PHONETIC AND MORPHOLOGIC VARIANTS (I) Abstract We have retraced the historic changes in the manner of expressing those two notions (which are equally ‘opposed’ as well as ‘successive’), beginning by the earliest Romanian attestations and tracking them down to the time of their utmost dialectal diversification. By analyzing the manners of expressing the meaning ‘I am exhausted’, we have been able to establish some very clearly defined facts: (i) there are in Romanian three Slavonic borrowings, slightly uneven from the chronological point of view but having nevertheless the same geographic / dialectal status in Old Romanian: a usteni, a se trudi and a obosi; (ii) (ii) each of those three verbs had already a very specific dialectal area by the beginning of the XXth century: west, east and south respectively; (iii) (iii) there are two lexical / semantic innovations in that field, both of them highly specific for one dialectal area but unevenly attested: a tăbărî (originally ‘to erect a military camp’, inasmuch as it is derived from tabără ‘camp’), a word specific to the Banat (with its south-danubian extension in the Timoc) has been attested in this area since the beginning of the XIXth century, whereas a se urî (a reflexive usage of a urî ‘to hate’ lat. horrīre horrescere), which covers the northern half of Crişana, has no attestation before the inquests of the Romanian Linguistic Atlas (i.e. the first decades of the XXth century); (iv) the oldest word in this field, a usteni, has its phonetic variants, each with a high degree of dialectal characterization: initial u has evolved to o but is still representative for the western idioms; medial a (normally changed in ă in Romanian, either unstressed or in a nasal vicinity) had evolved to e everywhere since the earliest attestations, but has been changed again in ă (in a series of identical vocalic changes after the consonant group st) at a later period, always in the western area.