> Well, _dãpãra_ is in the on-line DEX (dãpãra). It isn't
> tagged as a regionalism.
>
> Richard.
It should have been (perhaps the contributor
forgot to add it, and those who supervise the com-
pletion of the online dictionary didn't see what's
missing).
According to the previous edition of the Rum.
dictionary, <dãpãrá> is a regional + colloquial
variant of <depãrá.> (For a Romanian native-speaker
with some school education there's no need to look
them up in the dictionary to know that dã- prefixa-
tions are subdialectal and colloquial.) Moreover:
depãra itself has the tag... "regionalism".
There is no reason to expect the authors of the
next edition (the DEX: first published in 1975,
i.e. 18 years after the previous "DLRM") to have
changed a iota in the entries for <dãpãra> and
<depãra.>
Noteworthy: both the <de-> prefix and the preposition
<de> is subdialectally pronounced <dã> [d&], esp.
in the greater areas of Muntenia (incl. Bucharest),
Banat (SW of Romania) and Western Transylvania (esp.
all along the frontier with Hungary up to Transcar-
pathia; whereas towards the interior of Transylv, i.e.
in Transylvania proper, the [d] <de> tends to become
a palatal voiced stop as heavy and thorough as they
come.). The same applies to the prepos. <pe> "on; onto"
=> pã [p&]. OTOH, in Moldavia, these <de> tend to become
<di> [di]. (e.g. depãrtáre => dipartári; de la =>
di la; de tine => di tini). And <pe> => <pi>
(<pe tine> => <pi tini>).
George