daj (taj) dad

a word from vocabulary Selice Romani by Viktor Elšík  
Word form daj (taj) dad
LWT meaning(s)
Czech translation rodiče
Hungarian translation szülők
Grammatical info Both nouns are always used with determiners within the collocation, e.g. i daj (taj) o dad [ART.feminine mother ART.M father], mri daj (taj) mro dad [my.feminine mother my.M father]. The order of the nouns is fixed. They may but need not be connected by the conjunction taj ‘and’.
Analyzability analyzable phrasal
Gloss mother + (and +) father
Age Early Romani [9] (900–1300)
Early Romani reconstruction *daj dad (perhaps)
Boretzky & Igla's etymology no entry
Mānušs et al. etymology no entry
Vekerdi's etymology no entry