Romano Lavo-Lil
Romano Lavo-Lil
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Author(s): Borrow, George Henry
ISBN No.: 9781694470812
Pages: 348
Year: 201909
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 35.87
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

THE Gypsies of England call their language, as the Gypsies of many other countries call theirs, Romany or Romanes, a word either derived from the Indian Ram or Rama, which signifies a husband, or from the town Rome, which took its name either from the Indian Ram, or from the Gaulic word, Rom, which is nearly tantamount to husband or man, for as the Indian Ram means a husband or man, so does the Gaulic Pom signify that which constitutes a man and enables him to become a husband.Before entering on the subject of the English Gypsy, I may perhaps be expected to say something about the original Gypsy tongue. It is, however, very difficult to say with .


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