ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TÚFĂ
túfă (-fe), s. f. –
1. Arbust, grup de lăstari. –
2. Mărăciniș, tufiș de mure, hățiș. –
3. Alun. –
4. Plantă (Quercus pubescens). –
5. Nimic, absență, lipsă de. –
Mr. tufă, megl. tufcă. Lat. tufa, cf. ngr. τύφη (Pușcariu 1769; Philippide, II, 656; REW 8973),
v. germ. thûfas (Pușcariu,
Lr., 273);
cf. alb. tufë, ngr. τοῦφα (ar putea proveni din
rom.),
sard. tuvu, fr. touffe. Legătura dintre
alb. și gotic (Jokl,
Festchrift 57 Versamml. dt. Philologen, 1929) este extrem de improbabilâ. Ultimul sens nu este clar; și explicația lui Tiktin, bazată pe
gr. τῦφος,
cf. it. tuf(f)o, sp. tufo, pare insuficientă. Poate este o reducere a lui
tuflă, cf. tufli. Der. stuf, s. n. (trestie, Phragmites communis; mănunchi, smoc, hățiș, mărăciniș; încîlcitură, claie, păr dezordonat), cu
s- expresiv (după Cihac, II, 378, din
sl. žukŭ „pipirig”, după Roesler 566, din
gr. τύφη; după Candrea, din același cuvînt
gr. contaminat cu
lat. stypa);
tufan, s. m. (plante, Quercus pubescens, Q. pedunculata; trunchi, par);
(s)tufar, s. m. (arbust; mărăciniș);
tufănică (
var. tufănea),
s. f. (crizantemă, Chrysanthemum indicum; C. sinense);
tufărie, s. f. (trestiiș; claie de păr; hălăciugă);
tufăriș, s. n. (pădurice, desiș);
stufăriș, s. n. (trestiiș);
(s)tufiș, s. n. (mărăciniș, hățiș);
(s)tufos, adj. (foios, des; încîlcit);
stufui, vb. (a pune lese la);
întufoșa, vb. refl. (a crește ramurile, a se dezvolta un copas sau un arbust). – Din
rom. pare să provină
ngr. τοῦφα (Murnu 44; după Meyer,
Neugr. St., IV, 66, din
lat.),
bg. tufa (Romanski 130; Capidan,
Raporturile, 213), și poate
alb. tufë.
10 ROMANIAN BOOKS RELATING TO «TÚFĂ»
Discover the use of
túfă in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
túfă and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Romanian literature.
1
The Hum and the Shiver: A Novel of the Tufa
Named one of the Best Fiction Books of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews, The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe is an enchanting tale of music and magic older than the hills.
2
Long Black Curl: A Novel of the Tufa
Long Black Curl: a brand-new tale in Alex Bledsoe's acclaimed urban fantasy series, where magic is hidden in plain sight and age-old rivalries simmer just beneath the surface In all the time the Tufa have existed, only two have ever been ...
3
Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks: Analysis, Interpretation ... - Pagina 16
Plate 2 Terrestrial Freshwater Carbonates: Travertine, Calcareous Tufa and Sinter Travertines, tufa and calcareous sinter are excellent paleoclimatic archives (Andrews et al. 2000). These carbonates and their corresponding water bodies can ...
4
Contemporary Southwestern Jewelry - Pagina 40
distinction is the incorporation of a tufa-cast design of Monument Valley. On a trip in the 1970s to visit his grandparents, Charlie became concerned that Monument Valley was inaccessible to Navajo people. He mainly uses imagery of this ...
Diana Pardue, Heard Museum,
2007
5
Sagalassos VI: Geo- and Bio-archaeology at Sagalassos and ...
The tufa deposits are bordered to the east by a tufa cliff more than 10 m high, which corresponds to the major escarpment crossing the Başköy valley (site a; Figure 44). The tufa step has artificially been steepened by exploitation of the tufa ...
Patrick Degryse, Marc Waelkens,
2008
6
From Paleozoic to Quaternary: A Field Trip from the ... - Pagina 109
Lithology: (1) dark brown humic soil with small limestone and tufa clasts with a layer of tufa scree at the base, (2) brown humic soil with limestone clasts and a layer oflimestone scree, (3) light brown extremely loose tufa mixed with brown soil ...
7
South China Karst II - Pagina 95
A tufa bank formed by overlapped cones occurs mainly in the mid section of the east side, i.e. in the 'coloured tufa' area. Hot tufa rises along structural cracks, forming tufa cones. These cones are aligned with the direction of the fault, over time ...
8
Geologic and Natural History Tours in the Reno Area - Pagina 145
Among the first things to catch your eye as you too descend into the basin of Lake Lahontan will be the coatings, knobs, spires, and otherwise strange-appearing masses of this “calcareous substance”—tufa—that follow the shorelines of the ...
9
Late Quaternary Paleoecology in the Bonneville Basin - Pagina 22
Results for Provo tufas fall within a relatively narrow range of 0.7113-0.7119 (table V), demonstrating substantial but not complete mixing of the lake waters prior to tufa formation. The pattern of 87Sr/86Sr ratios is systematic and predictable.
10
Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great ...
Locally, discontinuous outcrops of beach rock are cemented by tufa carbonate (as opposed to pedogenic carbonate). Cosmogenic 36ClAge Estimate In 1996, Fred M. Phillips in the company of Antony and Amalie Jo Orme sampled the tufa ...
Marith C. Reheis, Robert Hershler, David M. Miller,
2008