gaʒo
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Romani
Alternative forms
Etymology
Two etymologies have been proposed:
- Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀕𑀚𑁆𑀛 (*gajjha), from Sanskrit गार्ह्य (gārhya, “domestic”).[1]
- Inherited from Sanskrit गय (gaya, “house”).[1]
Noun
gaʒo m (accusative gaʒes, nominative plural gaʒe, accusative plural gaʒen)
- (International Standard) gadje (non-Romani) man
Derived terms
Descendants
- Angloromani: gadjo, gawdjo
- Caló: gaché
- → Czech: gadžo
- → English: gadjo, gadgie
- → French: gadjo
- → Portuguese: gajo
- → Romanian: gagiu
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “gadžó”, 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, pages 94-95
Further reading
- Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
- Mozes F. Heinschink, Michael Teichmann (2003 January) “Gadscho (Gadžo) / Das / Gor”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database[2], Wien, archived from the original on 8 August 2016
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o gaʒ/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 146
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “gaʒo”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 136