sastro
Romani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Two etymologies have been proposed:
- Inherited from Sanskrit श्वाशुर (śvāśura).[1]
- Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀲𑀼𑀭 (sasura), from Sanskrit श्वशुर (śvaśura).[2]
Noun
[edit]sastro m (plural sastre)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śvāśurá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 740
- ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “sastró¹”, 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 256
Further reading
[edit]- Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 26
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o sastr/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 319