gaʒi

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

gaʒo (non-Romani man) + -i (feminine suffix).

Noun

gaʒi f (plural gaʒǎ)

  1. (International Standard) female equivalent of gaʒo (gadje (non-Romani person) woman)
    Antonym: (Romani woman) rromni

Descendants

  • Angloromani: gadji
  • Caló: gachí
  • French: gadji
  • Sinte Romani: gadži
  • Welsh Romani: gådži

References

  • 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, 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
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