200 REPORT — 1861. 



Femiiiiue uoiins nearly alwoys end in i or y; e. g., 



Gaiio Man. I Gairy Woman. 



Krallis King. | Krallissy Queen. 



The genitive case singular is fonnecl by adding esto or esko ; e. ff., 



Genitive, 



Giv (com) Givesto or Givesko. 



Ven (winter) Venesko or Vencsto. 



The plural is fonned by adding yor or or to the singular : — 



Skammin (chair) Skamminyor. 



Shock (cabbage) Shockyor. 



Pal (brother) Palor.' 



The Gipsies as often use the English plural in s : — 



Joovvel (wonian) Joovvels. 



Pen (sister) Pens. 



Adjectives end in o or y, agreeing in this respect with masculine or feminine 

 noims: e.g., 



3Ias. Fvm. 



Rinkeuno (pretty) Rinlvcnny. 



Chicldo (du-ty) ' Chickly. 



The comparative degree is fonned by adding dair or dairo ; but no pecidiar form 

 is met with for the superlative : — 



Door (far) ....-, Doordair (fiu'ther). 



The comparative degree is sometimes formed in-egularly : — 



Cooshko (good) Fetterdairo (better). 



The English Gipsies still use a great many of their peculiar pronouns ; c. </. 

 Mandy (I), too (thou), j'ov (he), j-oi (she), j-aun (they), adoovvo (that), acoovoo 

 (this), &c. The second and third personal pronouns in the English dialect are thus 

 declined, viz. — 



Thou. He. She. 



N Too, Yov, Yoi. 



G. D Tooty, Lesty, Latty, 



Ac Tooty or Toot, Les, 



Ab Tooty, Lesty, Latty. 



According to Grcllmaun, tlio German and Hungarian Gipsies have a peculiar 

 conjugation of their own. The Gitanos of Spani assimilate their verbs to the 

 Spanish conjugation. In this country the Gipsy dialect still exhibits remnants of 

 its ancient mode of conjugating the verb, although it generally confonns to the 

 English method in jireference. Thus, the termination ella often appears in the tlikd 

 person singular of the present tense, and the past participle ends in o or do : — 



Nasher (to lose) . . Nasherella (he loses) . . Nasherdo (lost). 

 Impersonal verbs always euc^in clla in the present tense; e.g., 



Brishinella (it rains) Yivyella (it snows). 



A special fonn for the perfect is met ■with in some verbs; e. g., 



Jill (to go). . . . Jas (he or she went). Lei (to take). . . . Las (took). 



Parts of the A'erb to he have been retained in common phrases, such as " Choom 

 see aprey "=:the moon is up, "Snr «/;««? " = how arc you!'' 



The Gipsies have a number of prepcsitior.s in common use; e.g. 

 Engl. Gipsy prepositions. Hind, prepositions. 



jVgal Age. 



Adrcy Audar. 



Aprey Upar. 



Talay Tale. 



Pawdel Par, 



On the syntax of the English Gipsy language veiy little was said j with but 



