| Word form | álav |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Czech translation | slovo |
| Hungarian translation | szó |
| Grammatical info | noun, masculine |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Old Indo-Aryan [9] (-1900–-500) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *alav M |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 5: 1. perhaps cognate with OIA lap- ‘schwatzen’; 2. perhaps contamined with nav/anav [’name’]; 3. perhaps contamined with < Arabic, Turkish lâf |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 24: < OIA ālāpá M ‘speech; talk, conversation’ |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 23: < Sanskrit ālāpa [T] |
| Turner's etymology | ālāpá 1373 ālāpá m. ʻ speech ʼ AV. [√lap] Pa. allāpa -- sallāpa -- m. ʻ conversation ʼ, Pk. ālāva -- m.; Gy. eur. alav ʻ word ʼ, germ. lav (scarcely < lāpa -- ); [...] lāpa 11014 lāpa m. ʻ talking ʼ W. [√lap] Pa. lāpa -- m. ʻ talking ʼ; Paš. lāu ʻ word, call ʼ; S. lã̄u m. ʻ repeating of certain prayers by Brahmans at a wedding ʼ; P. lāu m. ʻ slanderous charge ʼ, lāvā -- lutrā m. ʻ tattler ʼ. -- Gy. germ. lav ʻ word ʼ rather < alav < ālāpa -- |