phuv

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit भूमि (bhū́mi).[1][2] Cognate with Hindi भू (bhū).[2]

Noun

phuv f (nominative plural phuvǎ)

  1. earth[2][3]

Descendants
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: phuu

References
  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bhūˊmi”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 545
  2. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “phuv¹”, 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 239b
  3. Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e phuv, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, 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 299b
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