ćhaj
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Romani
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ćhavo + -i (“feminine ending”).[1]
Noun
[edit]ćhaj f anim (accusative ćhaja, nominative plural ćhaja, accusative plural ćhajen)
- (International Standard) female equivalent of ćhavo:
Descendants
[edit]- Angloromani: chai
- Caló: chai
- Tavringer Romani: tjej
- → English: chai
- → German: Chaya
- → Hungarian: csaj
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čhaj”, 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 55a
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i ćhaj¹, -a ʒ. -a, -en = i ćh/aj¹, -ia ʒ. -ia, -ien”, 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 114b
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “ćhaj”, 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