gaʒo

Romani

Alternative forms

• gadjo
• gadžo (Pan-Vlax)

Etymology

Two etymologies have been proposed:

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

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

• gaʒikano

 

Descendants

• Angloromani: gadjo, gawdjo
• Balkan Romani: gadžo
• Baltic Romani: gadžo
• Carpathian Romani: gadžo
• Kalo Finnish Romani: gaajo
• Sinte Romani: gadžo
• Vlax Romani: gaźo
• Welsh Romani: gådžo
• → Czech: gadžo
• → English: gadjo
• → French: gadjo
• → Portuguese: gajo
• → Romanian: gagiu

Further reading

• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
• Mozes F. Heinschink, Michael Teichmann (2003 January) “Gadscho (Gadžo) / Das / Gor”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎^[2], 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