| Word form | daj |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Czech translation | matka |
| Hungarian translation | anya |
| Grammatical info | noun, feminine |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | West Asian L2 [9] (700–1000) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *daj F ‘mother’ |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 64: cf. Hindi dādī ‘Grossmutter’, dāī ‘Amme = wet nurse’, Kurdish dāē ‘Mutter’; verbreitetes Lallwort |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 47: < Dravidian: Tamil tāj ‘mother’, Gondi dāj ‘mother’; cf. also Indo-Iranian: Middle Persian dājaġ, Dari dāja, Hindi dāi ‘wetnurse’, Kurdish da, dajê ‘mother’ and Sanskrit dājikā F ‘giving, making a present’ |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 52: no etymology [Turner] |
| Turner's etymology | 6261 |