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Borrowed from Arabicأَصْل(ʔaṣl). doublet of asli. Sense of interrogation extended from conjunction with overlap from elision of apa pasal or apasal from apa(“what”) + pasal(“cause, subject”).
↑ 1.01.1Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “asál¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 11a
↑ 2.02.1Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 27, 36, 40
^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “as/al, -àndilo¹ ÷ -àndilǎs¹ ≈ àjas²³”, 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 (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 65b
^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “asal (asanilǎs / asandǎs)”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 146b
Further reading
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “hásati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 811
“asal”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 51
Manuel, E. Arsenio (1971) A Lexicographic Study of Tayabas Tagalog of Quezon Province, Quezon City: Diliman Review, page 37
Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 17