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Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit शीत (śīta), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelt-.
Noun
śil m (nominative plural śila)
- (International Standard) cold
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śītá1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 723
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “šil¹”, 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 270a
- Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o śil, -es- m. -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, page 339b