kirmo

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately Derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷŕ̥mis. Two immediate etymologies have been proposed:

  1. Inherited from Sanskrit कृमि (kṛmi),[1][2][3] from Proto-Indo-Aryan *kŕ̥miṣ.
  2. Borrowed from Iranian,[3] from Proto-Iranian *kŕ̥miš.

Noun

kirmo m (nominative plural kirme)

  1. worm[1][2][3][4]

References
  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kŕ̊mi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 178
  2. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kermó”, 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 141ab
  3. Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 98
  4. Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o kirm/o, -es m. -e, -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 196b
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