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Romani
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit लड्डिक्क (laḍḍikka)[1] through metathesis.[2] Cognate with Hindi लड़का (laṛkā, “boy”) and Punjabi لڈکا (laḍikkā, “spoiled child”).[2]
Noun
raklo m anim (accusative rakles, nominative plural rakle, accusative plural raklen)
- gadje (non-Romani) boy
- Antonym: (Romani boy) ćhavo
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*laḍikka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 633
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “rakló”, 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 242
Further reading
- Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o rakl/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, pages 301-302
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “raklo”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22