gaʒi
Romani edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
gaʒo (“non-Romani man”) + -i (“feminine suffix”).
Noun edit
gaʒi f (plural gaʒǎ)
- (International Standard) female equivalent of gaʒo (“gadje (non-Romani person) woman”)
- Antonym: (Romani woman) rromni
Descendants edit
- Angloromani: gadji
- Caló: gachí
- → Spanish: gachí
- French: gadji
- Sinte Romani: gadži
- Welsh Romani: gådži
References edit
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “gadží”, 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 94
- Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e gaʒ/i, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, 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) “gaʒi”, 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