śunel

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néwti

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćr̥náwti

Sanskrit शृणोति (śṛṇoti)

Prakrit 𑀲𑀼𑀡𑀇 (suṇaï)

Romani śunel

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀼𑀡𑁂𑀤𑀺 (suṇedi). from Sanskrit शृणोति (śṛṇoti). Cognate with Hindi सुनना (sunnā), Gujarati સુણવું (suṇvũ).

Verb

śunel

(International Standard) to hear
Śun manqe! ― Listen to me!

Descendants

Caló: junar
- → Spanish: junar (“see, watch, observe”)

References

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śr̥ṇṓti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 730
Yaron Matras ((Can we date this quote?)) “Proto-Romani”, in the Manchester Romani Project‎^[1], Manchester, archived from the original on October 25, 2011
Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
Marcel Courthiade (2009) “aśunel²³”, 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 67
Marcel Courthiade (2009) “śun/el, -dǎs”, 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 344
Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “śunel (śundǎs)”, in 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 155