džungálo

a word from vocabulary Selice Romani by Viktor Elšík  
Word form džungálo
LWT meaning(s)
Czech translation ošklivý
Hungarian translation csúnya
Analyzability unanalyzable
Age Early Romani [9] (900–1300)
Early Romani reconstruction *džung-al-ó ‘dirty; ugly’
Etymological note No convincing etymology.
Boretzky & Igla's etymology 85: no etymology
Mānušs et al. etymology 55: < OIA *džungala- ‘excluded, driven out from a caste’, cf. Sanskrit džung- ‘to exclude’
Vekerdi's etymology 61: no etymology
Other etymologies – Valtonen, Wolf < Hungarian csúnya [clearly wrong] – Manuš (1994: 30–1)