gaʒo
Romani
Alternative forms
- gadjo
- gadžo (Pan-Vlax)
Etymology
Two etymologies have been proposed:
- Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀕𑀚𑁆𑀛 (*gajjha), from Sanskrit गार्ह्य (gārhya, “domestic”).[1]
- Inherited from Sanskrit गय (gaya, “house”).[1]
Noun
gaʒo m (accusative gaʒes, nominative plural gaʒe, accusative plural gaʒen)
- (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
References
- Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “gadžó”, 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, pages 94-95
Further reading
- Yaron Matras (2002), “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
- Mozes F. Heinschink; Michael Teichmann (January 2003), “Gadscho (Gadžo) / Das / Gor”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database, Wien, archived from the original on 2016-08-08, retrieved 25 August 2021
- 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] (in Hungarian; 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