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Swadesh list of 207 words in English and Romani.

1 Presentation
2 List
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Presentation

For further information, read the article: Swadesh list

The Swadesh word list, developed by the linguist Morris Swadesh, is used as a tool to study the evolution of languages. It contains a set of basic words which can be found in every language. Various versions have been created, in particular:

a complete 207 words version, in which some of the words are not found in every environment (it contains for instance snake and snow)
a reduced 100 words version.

This word list should not be considered as an elementary lexicon to communicate with speakers of a given language; for such a purpose, the numerous existing Wikitravel lexicons are more useful. Its only objective is to give a rough idea of the language, by showing its lexical and, when possible, phonetics basis.

[edit] List

No.	English	Romani romany
1	I	me
2	you (singular)	tu
3	he	voj
4	we	ame
5	you (plural)	tume
6	they	von
7	this	kado
8	that	kodo
9	here	kathe
10	there	kothe
11	who	kon
12	what	so
13	where	kaj
14	when	kana
15	how	sar
16	not	na
17	all	sa
18	many	but
19	some	unyi
20	few	cerra
21	other	kaver
22	one	jekh
23	two	duj
24	three	trin
25	four	shtar
26	five	panzh
27	big	baro
28	long	lungo
29	wide	bulyho
30	thick	thulo
31	heavy	pharo
32	small	cino
33	short	skurto
34	narrow	tang
35	thin	sano
36	woman	zhulyi
37	man (adult male)	mursh
38	man (human being)	manush
39	child	shavoro
40	wife	romnyi
41	husband	rom
42	mother	dej
43	father	dad
44	animal	pedo
45	fish	masho
46	bird	chiriklyi
47	dog	zhukel
48	louse	zhuv
49	snake	sap
50	worm	kermo
51	tree	kasht
52	forest	vesh
53	stick	kopal
54	fruit	frukto
55	seed	sumburo
56	leaf	patrin
57	root	rikita
58	bark (of a tree)	korca
59	flower	luludyi
60	grass	char
61	rope	shelo
62	skin	morchi
63	meat	mas
64	blood	rat
65	bone	kokalo
66	fat (noun)	thulo
67	egg	anro
68	horn	shing
69	tail	pori
70	feather	por
71	hair	bal
72	head	shero
73	ear	kan
74	eye	jakh
75	nose	nakh
76	mouth	muj
77	tooth	dand
78	tongue (organ)	shib
79	fingernail	vundya
80	foot	punro
81	leg	fujeri
82	knee	chang
83	hand	vast
84	wing	phak
85	belly	per
86	guts	porr
87	neck	korr
88	back	dumo
89	breast	chuchi
90	heart	jilo
91	liver	puko
92	to drink	pijel
93	to eat	xal
94	to bite	dindalel
95	to suck	chuchi pel
96	to spit	shungardel
97	to vomit	shandel
98	to blow	phurdel
99	to breathe	sufla lel
100	to laugh	assal
101	to see	dikhel
102	to hear	ashunel
103	to know	zhanel
104	to think	gindil
105	to smell	sungal
106	to fear	daral
107	to sleep	sovel
108	to live	zhuvel
109	to die	merel
110	to kill	mudarel
111	to fight	marel
112	to hunt	mudarel
113	to hit	chalavel
114	to cut	shinel
115	to split	pharravel
116	to stab	pusavel
117	to scratch	xarundel
118	to dig	hunavel
119	to swim	plemel
120	to fly	ural
121	to walk	phirel
122	to come	avel
123	to lie (as in a bed)	pashlyol
124	to sit	beshel
125	to stand	tordyol
126	to turn (intransitive)	boldel
127	to fall	perel
128	to give	del
129	to hold	xutyilel
130	to squeeze	kikidel
131	to rub	morel
132	to wash	thovel
133	to wipe	khosel
134	to pull	cirdel
135	to push	pizdel
136	to throw	shudel
137	to tie	phandel
138	to sew	suvel
139	to count	ginavel
140	to say	phenel
141	to sing	gilyabel
142	to play	khelel
143	to float	urnel
144	to flow	shordyol
145	to freeze	pahosajvel
146	to swell	shulyol
147	sun	kham
148	moon	shon
149	star	cherhaj
150	water	paji
151	rain	brishind
152	river	len
153	lake	baro paji
154	sea	marja
155	salt	lon
156	stone	barr
157	sand	kishaj
158	dust	praxo
159	earth	phuv
160	cloud	noro
161	fog	muglya
162	sky	cheri
163	wind	balval
164	snow	jiv
165	ice	paho
166	smoke	thuv
167	fire	jag
168	ash	ushar
169	to burn	phabol
170	road	drom
171	mountain	plaj
172	red	lolo
173	green	zeleno
174	yellow	galbeno
175	white	parno
176	black	kalo
177	night	ratyi
178	day	dyes
179	year	bersh
180	warm	tato
181	cold	shudro
182	full	pherdo
183	new	nyevo
184	old	phurano
185	good	lasho
186	bad	nasul
187	rotten	kerno
188	dirty	melalo
189	straight	vorta
190	round	oblo
191	sharp (as a knife)	kucime
192	dull (as a knife)	bikucime
193	smooth	samtalo
194	wet	kindyilo
195	dry	shuko
196	correct	uchito
197	near	pashe
198	far	dur
199	right	chacho
200	left	stungo
201	at	kaj
202	in	ando
203	with	-ca
204	and	thaj
205	if	te
206	because	ke
207	name	anav