veś
Romani
Alternative forms
- vesh (Anglicized)
- veš (Pan-Vlax)
Etymology
Borrowed from Iranian. Compare Middle Persian [script needed] (wyšk' /wēšag/)[1] and Persian بیشه (bêše).[1]
Noun
veś m (nominative plural veśa)
- (International Standard) forest[1][2]
- O ruv trail anθ-o veś.
- The wolf lives in the forest.
Descendants
- Tavringer Romani: vissj, vässj
- → Swedish: vischan
References
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “veš”, 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 299a
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o veś, -es- m. -a, -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] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 375b
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