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Romani
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀚𑀸𑀡𑀤𑀺 (jāṇadi), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀚𑀸𑀦𑀢𑀺 (jānati), from Sanskrit जानाति (jānā́ti). Cognates include Hindi जानना (jānnā).
Pronunciation
Verb
ʒanel
- (International Standard) to know
- Voj na ʒanel so te del dùma. ― She doesn't know what to say.
- Tu ʒanes la? ― Do you know her?
Descendants
- → Romanian: gini (“to notice, to observe, to pay attention to”)
References
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “džanél”, 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 82
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ʒan/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 386