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Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit वात (vāta)[1] through reduplication.[2]
Noun
balval f (nominative plural balvalǎ)
- wind[2][3][4]
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vātá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 670
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “balvál”, 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 19ab
- ^ Yaron Matras (2002) Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 27
- ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e balval, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, 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 73a