Where does “Para-Romani” come from?
Para-Romani (English) comes from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō — to succeed, to prosper.
Para-Romani (English): Any of various mixed languages of non-Indo-Aryan classification that contain considerable admixture from the Romani language
Definitions
- Any of various mixed languages of non-Indo-Aryan classification that contain considerable admixture from the Romani language
Ancestry of “Para-Romani”, step by step
Para-Romani traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Pará
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 2 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 4 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 5 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 7 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 8 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 9 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |
via English romani
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | romani | A member of the Roma, a nomadic people originating in modern-day Pakistan or Northwest India and traditionally having an itinerant way of life, living widely dispersed across Europe and speaking a language that is related to Hindi |
| 2 | Romani | romani | — |
| 3 | Romani | romano | Alternative form of rromano; of or pertaining to... |
| 4 | Romani | rom | Alternative form of rrom; male Romani person; man |
| 5 | Romani | rrom | Romani man; husband |
| 6 | Sanskrit | डोम | member of a low caste of travelling musicians and... |