From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 48903
Date: 2007-06-07
>word.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, alex <alxmoeller@> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > alexandru_mg3 schrieb:
> >
> > > > > As far as I see, hal in Romanin has exactly the
> > > meaning 'situation,
> > > > > position', so I am afraid that it is really the loan from
> Turkish.
> > >
> > > No. Romanian hal has almost the same meaning as the Albanian
> > >status
> > > "In ce hal esti!" -> 'In what disaster/physical-trouble/bad-
> > > you are!'low
> >
> >
> > and what should be wrong here if the original semantism was
> > "postion", "situation"? It appears to me that this "hal" fits
> > perfectly the other turkish loans, having as most of them a
> > peiorative connotion and a big spot of colour in speach when
> someone
> > use these kind of words. Honestly, I guess this is a loan from
> > Turkish. This "hal" has synonims just bad position, bad situation
> > bad habit, bad aspect thus the meaning which fits the
> Arabic/Turkish
> > meaning. Actually it is a "Bereicherung" of the language having a
> > word which means bad position, habit, situation, aspect, looking
> and
> > you can say them all just using "hal".The semnatism developed as
> > almost all other words from Turkish, they have been used on the
> > level stilistic scala. They are there to be used mostlypeiorative
> > less they mean something to eat or drink :-))to
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
> Sorry, Alex, but your explanation above is a pure 'ad-hoc' one.
>
> You know as me, that the Romanian word 'hal' clearly point to ' a
> very very bad situation, a big trouble, a bad injury etc..' (so
> nothing peiorative in this word) we don't have a word in Romanian
> indicate better 'the worst situation' than 'hal' (excluding ofcourse
> the 'dead' situation)a
>
> On this aspect, Albanian and Romanian clearly point to one and the
> same word : now, if this word is a Turkish loan, than it should be
> Turkish loan in both Languages.=>
>
> So if in Turkish, the word has/had a 'minimum' meaning of 'bad,
> trouble, sorrow' OK for me, but if not, the semantic will not fit
> why 2 languages, separated by more than 600 KM when the Turksarrived
> in Balkans, to develop such a similar meaning that didn't exist inSame for Romanian/Albanian hai , haide, haidi 'come! come on! come
> the supposed source language?
>
> Marius
>