Romani edit

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀼𑀡𑁂𑀤𑀺 (suṇedi), from Sanskrit शृणोति (śṛṇoti). Cognate with Hindi सुनना (sunnā), Gujarati સુણવું (suṇvũ) and Assamese শুনা (xuna).

Verb edit

śunel

  1. (International Standard) to hear
    Śun manqe!Listen to me!

Descendants edit

  • Caló: junar
    • Spanish: junar (see, watch, observe)

References edit

  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śr̥ṇṓti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 730
  • Yaron Matras ((Can we date this quote?)) “Proto-Romani”, in the Manchester Romani Project[1], Manchester, archived from the original on October 25, 2011
  • Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “aśunel²³”, 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 67
  • Marcel Courthiade (2009) “śun/el, -dǎs”, 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 344
  • Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “śunel (śundǎs)”, 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 155