sasuj

Romani

Alternative forms

• sasvi

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀲𑁆𑀲𑀽 (sassū), from Sanskrit श्वश्रू (śvaśrū), from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂. Compare Hindi सास (sās) and Kalasha isprés.

Noun

sasuj f

1. mother-in-law

See also

• sastro
• bori
• ʒamutro

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śvaśrūˊ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 740
• Marcel Courthiade (1989) Geoff Husič, transl., Romani Grammar‎^[1], e-book edition, volumes 1: General Information, Phonology, and Morphology, Lawrence, Kansas, published 2019, →OCLC, pages 58, 61, 140
• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “sasúj”, 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 257
• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 26
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i sasu/i¹#, ja ʒ. -ja, -jen = i sasuj, -a ʒ. -a, -en = i sas/uj, -a- ʒ. -a, -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, pages 319-320