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Dor is most commonly associated with home or homeland (dor de casă and,
respectively, dor de Ńară). It is regarded as a typically Romanian feeling.
Romanians living abroad are deplored to constantly suffer from dor de Ńară.
The ironical use of dor is common in colloquial Romanian as in (2) and (3):
(2) Ce dor îmi era să stau la coadă!
“How I was yearning to wait in a queue!”
(3) Numai de iarnă nu îi e lui dor.
“It is only winter he doesn’t miss”.
A study on the use of dor in colloquial Romanian may presumably reveal other
similar instances.
The semantics of dor
To analyse the semantic features of the noun dor in Romanian literature, I made
up a corpus of Romanain literature. This corpus comprises representative works
beginning with Romanian folklore, representatives of the 1848’s patriots (Vasile
Alescandri, Gheorghe Asachi), includes the four Romanian classics (Mihai
Eminescu, Ion Creangă, Ioan Slavici and Ion Luca Caragiale), modern
Romanian writers (Lucian Blaga, Ana Blandiana, Nichita Stănescu).
Geographically, it mostly includes works and authors of the Romanian historical
states, whose territories make up present-day Romania, but is also includes
folklore belonging to the Romanian territories which are ouside the borders of
the Romanian states: Aromanians (also known as Macedo-Romanians, living in
Macedonia, Northern Greece, southwestern Bulgaria and Albania), Romanians
living in the Timoc Valley (Serbia), as well as two authors from Basarabia (also
known as Bessarabia, whose main part makes up the present Republic of
Moldova): Constantin Stamati-Ciurea (1828-1898) and Grigore Vieru (b. 1950).
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