ćhavo
Appearance
Romani
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- chavo, shavo (Anglicized)
- ćavo, śavo (International Standard)
- čavo, čhavo, čho, šavo, śav (Pan-Vlax)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Romani *čhavo, from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀙𑀸𑀯 (chāva, “baby animal”),[1][2] from Sanskrit *छाप (chāpa).[1][2] Cognate with Pali chāpa (“the young of an animal”), Marathi छावा (chāvā, “cub”) and Bengali ছা (cha, “the young of an animal, infant child”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ćhavo m anim (accusative ćhaves, nominative plural ćhave, accusative plural ćhaven)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Caló: chavó
- →? Bulgarian: чаве (čave)
- →? English: chav
- → German: Chabo
- → Hungarian: csávó
- → Romanian: șau, șeau
- →? Russian: чувак (čuvak)
- → Swedish: tjabo
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*chāpa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 275
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čhavó”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 55b
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o ćhav/o, -es m. -e, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 115b
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22
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