śunel
Romani
Alternative forms
- ashunel, shunel (Anglicized)
- aśunel (International Standard)
- ašunel, šunel (Pan-Vlax)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀼𑀡𑁂𑀤𑀺 (suṇedi). from Sanskrit शृणोति (śṛṇoti). Cognate with Hindi सुनना (sunnā), Gujarati સુણવું (suṇvũ).
Verb
śunel
- (International Standard) to hear
- Śun manqe! ― Listen to me!
Descendants
- Caló: junar
- → Spanish: junar (“see, watch, observe”)
References
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śr̥ṇṓti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 730
- Yaron Matras ((Can we date this quote?)) “Proto-Romani”, in the Manchester Romani Project[1], Manchester, archived from the original on 25 October 2011
- Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “aśunel²³”, 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 67
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “śun/el, -dǎs”, 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 344
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “śunel (śundǎs)”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155