Abstract
}This paper’s authors, who are also authors and coordinators of DELR, discuss the etymological treatment of neologisms in Romanian academic dictionaries, with a special emphasis on words starting with the letters A–D. The paper comprises some original etymologies, completing and correcting the solutions previously proposed by DEX and DLR. This endeavour calls for a fresh overview of the main criteria used by lexicographers in scientific etymological research, and for a re-evaluation of several concepts such as multiple etymology or mixed etymology. The paper discusses the origins of 132 words and is organized according to the main criterion that underlay the authors’ option for a certain etymological solution.
Highlights
The present paper presents a series of original solutions that correct and complete the etymological treatment of neologisms in Romanian academic dictionaries
Etymology is one of the most important aspects of the history of any language, for several reasons: (1). It sheds light on the past and present geographical and cultural contacts that the speakers of a language have had with other languages; (2) it lays the foundation for relevant statistics regarding the number and status of the words that constitute the lexicon of a language; (3) it reveals the tendencies in the evolution of the lexicon, in connection to the integration of a linguistic community in a broader cultural network
A word may have been borrowed from two sources, having a multiple external etymology, and at the same time it may have been coined in Romanian, with the same meaning or with a different one
Summary
The present paper presents a series of original solutions that correct and complete the etymological treatment of neologisms in Romanian academic dictionaries. Completing previous etymological explanations is familiar with the form of the word in more than one language (e.g., with a French word and its Latin etymon) This situation usually occurs with international words and is favoured by the coexistence of multiple cultural influences over a certain period or a certain area, or by the multilingual profile of a certain author[6 ]. A word may have been borrowed from two sources, having a multiple external etymology, and at the same time it may have been coined in Romanian, with the same meaning or with a different one Such is the case of the noun aristocratism ‘aristocratic attitude’, attested in the mid-19th century The full reference of these sources can be found in the bibliography published in delr, 2nd volume, 2nd part
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