kirmo
Romani
Alternative forms
- kermo
Etymology
Ultimately Derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷŕ̥mis. Two immediate etymologies have been proposed:
- Inherited from Sanskrit कृमि (kṛmi),[1][2][3] from Proto-Indo-Aryan *kŕ̥miṣ.
- Borrowed from Iranian,[3] from Proto-Iranian *kŕ̥miš.
Noun
kirmo m (nominative plural kirme)
- worm[1][2][3][4]
References
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “kŕ̊mi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 178
- Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “kermó”, 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 141ab
- Andrea Scala (2020), “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras; Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 98
- Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o kirm/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 196b