| Word form | bango |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | lame; crooked, bent, curved |
| Czech translation | chromý; kulhavý, belhavý; křivý |
| Hungarian translation | béna; sánta; görbe |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Old Indo-Aryan [9] (-1900–-500) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *bang-ó ‘crooked, bent’ and *lang-ó ‘lame’ While the meaning ‘crooked, bent, curved’ is inherited from OIA, the meaning ‘lame’ is shared only with some Romani dialects (e.g. Arli) and is due to contamination with another etymon, the adjective *lang-ó, which has been lost in Selice Romani (but is still attested in some other South Central dialects, cf. Vekerdi 2000: 100). |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 20: bango < Prakrit vaṁka- < OIA vaṅka- 164: lang-al-o < OIA laṅga-; cf. Hindi lãgṛā |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 28–29: bango < OIA vaṅka ‘crookedness’ and vaṅkja ‘crooked, curved’; cf. Nepali baṅgo and Hindi baṅgā ‘crooked, curved, bent’ 80: lang-al-o < OIA laṅga ‘lame’ |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 32–33: bango < Sanskrit vaṅka [Turner] 100: lango perhaps < Sanskrit laṅga [Turner] or Persian lang |
| Turner's etymology | 11191, 10877 |
| Other etymologies | Kuipers (1948: 87–88): apparent Proto-Munda origin; mentioning Romani bango |
| Mayrhofer's etymology | II, 489: vaṅku- (ohne einmütige Übersetzung); mostly connected to VAÑC II, 492: VAÑC ‘dahinwanken, wogend gehen’: PIE perhaps *wenk ‘krümmen’ |