120 GYPSIES. 



I think the remnant of inflexion used in America is 

 about as follows. 



FIRST PEESON. 



Singular. Plural. 



Nom. Mdndi men, mendui 



Gren. miro, miri, mi, mWo mendui^ s 

 Ace. man, mdndi 



SECOJSTD PEESON — SING PL AE. 



Nom. tu, tuti 

 Gen. tiro tuti's 

 Ace. tut tuti 

 Plural like Nominative. 



THIED PEESON — SUSTGULAE. 



Masculine. Feminine. 



Nom. ywo Idti (properly ace.) 



Gen. lesW s Idtis 



Ace. lesti Idti. 



COMMOISr PLUEAL. 



Nom. lis. An oblique case used, however, as nomi- 

 native by our Gypsies. 



Gen. lendt's. 



Ace. len lendi. 



Smart and Crofton give an elaborate series of forms for 

 the pronoun, perhaps adapted from Paspati's Turkish 

 ^ypsy. I doubt if all their forms have been heard in 

 England for many a day. 



The verb has lost most. Gypsies add English termina- 

 tions to the Romany stems and, I believe, all the old 

 Romany endings among oar American Romanies have 

 practically been lost. The verb to be, however, retains 

 inflexions ; its singular, 



mdndi shorn, I am, 



tute sJian, thou art, 



yuv si, he is, 



Idti si, she is, 

 being still used by the Gypsies. 



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