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Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀏𑀓𑁆𑀓 (ekka),[1][2] from Sanskrit एक (eka).
Numeral
jekh
- one[2][3]
Descendants
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*ēkka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 119
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “jekh”, 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 129ab
- ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “jekh B-ćham: -e”, 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 181b
Welsh Romani
Numeral
jekh
- one
Pronoun
jekh
- one thing, one person
Noun
jekh m or f
- one thing, one person
- (card games) ace
Usage notes
- The noun has the masculine gender when used with the sense "ace".
Adjective
jekh
- a certain, a single
References
- “jekh” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.