laćho
Romani
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Several etymologies have been proposed:
- Inherited from Sanskrit अच्छ (accha), with a "l-" prothesis, thus, being a cognate of Hindi अच्छा (acchā).[1][2]
- Inherited from Sanskrit लक्ष्मक (lakṣmaka),[2][3] लक्ष्मी (lakṣmī).[2] Compare also लक्षित (lakṣita).[2]
Adjective
[edit]laćho (feminine laćhi, plural laćhe)
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “accha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 8
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “lačh-ó”, 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 162b
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lakṣmaka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 630
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “laćh/o, -i pl. -e”, 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 218b
- ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “laćh/o, -i, -e, -e”, 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 151b
Vlax Romani
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]laćho