Hello,
While reading texts in Sarnami, there are several words which are new to me, as a native speaker of newer Awadhi/Standard Urdu and Hindi, one of the words that I cannot make sense of is "paraanie" (Dutch spelling). Can anyone tell me the origin and meaning of this word?
At first I thought it might be derived from Hindi "praani" - a living thing, but since this language is heavily influenced by Dutch, I quickly used Google Translate to check whether this is indeed a Dutch word and it gave me "paranoid". I am not sure which one is more accurate.
Example of usage:
(Dutch-based orthography)
Doei Paraanie
Ekgo aadmie aur ek aurat raha. Ie doeno doei paraanie raha.
Many thanks
While reading texts in Sarnami, there are several words which are new to me, as a native speaker of newer Awadhi/Standard Urdu and Hindi, one of the words that I cannot make sense of is "paraanie" (Dutch spelling). Can anyone tell me the origin and meaning of this word?
At first I thought it might be derived from Hindi "praani" - a living thing, but since this language is heavily influenced by Dutch, I quickly used Google Translate to check whether this is indeed a Dutch word and it gave me "paranoid". I am not sure which one is more accurate.
Example of usage:
(Dutch-based orthography)
Doei Paraanie
Ekgo aadmie aur ek aurat raha. Ie doeno doei paraanie raha.
Many thanks
