ćhaj

See also: chaj, čhaj, and chäj

Romani

Alternative forms

ćhej (International Standard)
čai, čhaj, čhej (Pan-Vlax)

Etymology

ćhavo +‎ -i (“feminine ending”).^[1]

Noun

ćhaj f anim (accusative ćhaja, nominative plural ćhaja, accusative plural ćhajen)

(International Standard) female equivalent of ćhavo:
1. Romani girl^[1]^[2]^[3]
  Synonyms: (Romani boy) ćhavo, (Romani man) rrom, (Romani woman) rromni
  
  Antonyms: (gadje girl) rakli, (gadje boy) raklo, (gadje man) gaʒo, (gadje woman) gaʒi
2. daughter^[1]^[2]^[3]
  Antonym: ćhavo

Descendants

Angloromani: chai
Caló: chai
Tavringer Romani: tjej
- → Swedish: tjej, tjeja
  - → Norwegian:
    - Norwegian Bokmål: kjei, kei
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: kjei, kei
→ English: chai
→ German: Chaya
→ Hungarian: csaj

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čhaj”, 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 55a
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i ćhaj¹, -a ʒ. -a, -en = i ćh/aj¹, -ia ʒ. -ia, -ien”, 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 114b
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “ćhaj”, 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 22

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