śil

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sil"

Romani

Alternative forms

• shil (Anglicized)
• šil (Pan-Vlax)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit शीत (śīta), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelt-.

Noun

śil m (nominative plural śila)

1. (International Standard) cold

Derived terms

• śilalo

 

Descendants

• Caló: jil

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śītá1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 723
• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “šil¹”, 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 270a
• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o śil, -es- m. -a, -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 339b