gaʒo

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Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Two etymologies have been proposed:

  1. Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀕𑀚𑁆𑀛 (*gajjha), from Sanskrit गार्ह्य (gārhya, “domestic”).[1]
  2. Inherited from Sanskrit गय (gaya, “house”).[1]

Noun

gaʒo m (accusative gaʒes, nominative plural gaʒe, accusative plural gaʒen)

  1. (International Standard) gadje (non-Romani) man
    Coordinate terms: (gadje woman) gaʒi, (gadje boy) raklo, (gadje girl) rakli
    Coordinate term: (Romani man) rrom

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Angloromani: gadjo, gawdjo
  • Caló: gaché
  • → Czech: gadžo
  • → English: gadjo, gadgie
  • → French: gadjo
  • → Portuguese: gajo
  • → Romanian: gagiu

References

  1. ↑ 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, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
  • Mozes F. Heinschink, Michael Teichmann (2003 January) “Gadscho (Gadžo) / Das / Gor”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎, 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
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