rroj

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • (Arvanite) rronj
  • (Gheg) rrnoj, rnoj [1]

Etymology

From dialectal rronj, from Proto-Albanian *rānja, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁-; akin to Lithuanian róti (“to cope, be ready”).[2]

Verb

rroj (first-person singular past tense rrojta, participle rrojtur)

  1. to stay alive, survive
  2. to reside, live, dwell

References
  1. Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 118, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 388

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀟𑁄𑀯 (ḍova).[1][2]

Noun

rroj f (nominative plural rroja)

  1. spoon[1][2][3]

Descendants
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: roi

References
  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*ḍōva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 315
  2. Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “řoj”, 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 250b
  3. Marcel Courthiade (2009), “i/e rroj I, -a- ʒ. -a, -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] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 313b-314a
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