| Word form | dilino |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | stupid, foolish; crazy; mad, insane |
| Czech translation | hloupý, blbý; bláznivý; šílený |
| Hungarian translation | buta; bolond |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | later than Early Romani [9] (1300–2007) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *d-in-ó; the forms d-il-ó or d-il-in-ó are dialect-specific innovations |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 73: < Pali dīna- ‘elend, arm’ < OIA dīna- past participle ‘knapp, beschränkt’, perhaps contamined with the participle dino of d- ‘give’, which (p. 73) < OIA *dinna instead of datta- |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 49: < Sanskrit dīná ‘pitiful, pitiable, miserable’ + suffix -lo |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 55: perhaps < Sanskrit dīna [T] |
| Turner's etymology | 6347, 14607 |
| Other etymologies | – Tálos (1999: 231, 233): two disinct etyma 1. dilino < *(go)di lino [mind taken] ‘silly, fool’ 2. Ancient Romani *dilo = a) participle of the Ancient Romani verb *di-el ‘gets mad’ < OIA dṛpyati ‘is mad, is wildly excited’ [T 6512]; not the reflex of the OIA participle dṛptá-, which would yield Ancient Romani *dito; usual connection to OIA dīná- ‘sad’ [T 6347, 14607] refused; or b) < OIA dṛti- M/F ‘skin for water; smith’s bellows’ |