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čiriklo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /t͡ʃiɹiklo/

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani ćiriklo (“bird, sparrow; háček”); compare ̼ (seagull).

Meanings

  1. (in reference to the diacritics used in Romani, rare) A háček (marking palatalisation when written atop a consonant, iotation when written atop a vowel).
    • Preyotization is indicated by means of the “čiriklo” ˇ. 1990, Roma, Roma Publications, page 43:
    • RS follows standard East European practice of using the wedge (haček, čiriklo) to indicate the strident palatals (š, ž, č, dž). 1997, Victor A. Friedman, “Linguistic form and content in the Romani-language press of the Republic of Macedonia”, in Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov, editors, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 185, →ISBN:
    • j or haček (čiriklo) over following vowel 2003, Victor A. Friedman, Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond, page 157:
    • Palatalisation of d, l, n, t is marked only by a čiriklo (ˇ) (term coined by M. Courtiade). 1995, Yaron Matras, editor, Romani in Contact, J. Benjamins, →ISBN, page 197, →ISBN: