Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Albanian *ϑau-, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂us- (dry, arid).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

thaj (aorist thava, participle tharë)

  1. to dry up

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: []] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 392

Romani edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sanskrit तथापि (tathāpi), sandhi form of तथा (tathā) +‎ अपि (api).[1] Compare Pashto [script needed] (thā).[1]

Conjunction edit

thaj

  1. and[1][2][3]

Descendants edit

  • Angloromani: ta, da, te, ti

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “thaj”, 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 285a
  2. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009), “thaj”, 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] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 361b
  3. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “thaj”, 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 156a