wonga

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₁óngʷl̥
2. Proto-Indo-Iranian · derived from*Hángāras
3. Sanskrit · derived fromअङ्गार“charcoal, coal”
4. Romani · derived fromangar“coal”
5. Angloromani · borrowed from[Term?]
6. English todaywonga

Borrowed from Angloromani [Term?], from Romani angar (“coal”), from Sanskrit अङ्गार (áṅgāra, “charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hángāras, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥. The English term coal was itself used as a slang term for money in England in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Words from the same roots