单词 | romanes |
释义 | Romanesn. The language of the Roma; Romani (see Romani n. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indic > Romany Gypsy1800 Romani1819 Romanes1863 1863 Smart in Trans. Philol. Soc. App. 5 All our Gypsies in speaking Romanes mix it to a greater or less extent with English. 1875 B. C. Smart & H. T. Crofton Dial. Eng. Gypsies p. ix The grammatical forms..of the ‘deepest’ extant English Romanes. 1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. ix She was one of the few Gypsies of either sex who could speak with equal fluency both the English and Welsh Romanes. 1907 A. McCormick Tinkler Gypsies v. 236 When we are amongst our own lot we speak Romanes frequently. 1976 Word 27 354 Practically all Romani groups maintain one or another dialect of Romanés. 2004 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 30 Apr. 20 When an examiner asks a [Roma] child what letter ‘sun’ starts with, they tend to answer in their first language—Romanes—saying ‘k’ (the Romanes for ‘sun’ is ‘khamoro’). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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