Lexicon
Bohemian Romani shares with other dialects of Romani much of its Indo-Aryan vocabulary as well as numerous early loanwords from Western Iranian languages (Persian and/or Kurdish), Armenian, Ossetic, and Greek. In addition, it shares with the other North Central dialects of Romani the layer of loanwords from South Slavic languages, Hungarian, and Slovak. Finally, the most recent loanwords originate in Czech.
Examples of loanwords
- West Iranian: angrusťi "ring", baxt "luck", čupňi(k) "whip"
- Armenian: burnek "handful", grast "horse"
- West Iranian or Armenian: čekat "forehead"
- Ossetic: círax "shoe, boot", xólov "trousers"
- Greek: amoňis "anvil", armin "cabbage", efta "seven", foros "town", ľiťhi "fruit tree", paxoň- "freeze"
- South Slavic: caklo "glass", doha "enough", dugo "long", duma "speech", vičin- "shout"
- Hungarian: bugaris "spider" (< "beetle"), dilos "noon", faďin- "freeze"
- Slovak: čapláris "inn keeper"
- Czech: mořos "sea"
- Slovak or Czech: hrobos "grave", národos "friend" (< "nation")
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