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But for the rest they say : mandi Teams tute^ for, I love 

 you, instead of me kdmava tut ; they say, mandi dik' d, 

 I saw, instead of dikdoin ; they say, to pi^ to drink, in- 

 stead of pialini, and they use such anglicized forms as 

 hoierC hdben^ eating food ; leVdapre^ taken up (slang for 

 arrested), etc., etc. 



But if we find, little in the grammar of use to us the 

 vocabulary they retain is still very large. " Not more 

 " than fourteen hundred words, the greater part of which 

 "seem to be of Indian origin," says George Borrow 

 (Lavo Lil, p. 6). Leland, in the " Gypsies," thinks it 

 quite possible very many more words might be found 

 than Borrow knew of. I have taken down three hun- 

 dred, fifty words from the Gypsies I have known on the 

 Hudson river and I have worked at it only very occa- 

 sionally and only during three years altogether. 



The Indian origin of the Romany language has already 

 been established by Pott, Miklosich, Borrow, Paspati, 

 Leland, Simson, &c. In illustration of it, it may be well 

 to introduce the following list of Romany words with 

 the cognate Sanskrit ones, which jhas been kindly sent 

 me by my friend Mr. George N. Olcott. The Romany 

 words given are common ones, such as may be beard in 

 every Gypsy's tent in New York state. 



aldj, ashamed. A is added to assimilate it with En- 

 glish a shamed. In old Romany we have the form 

 laj. Hindustani laj : Skts. lajja. 



wangar, coal (also money). Old form angar. Hindi 

 angara : Skt. angara, coal. 



koTco, uncle. Hindustani kaka^ uncle. 



kdlo, black. Hindustani kala, black ; whence Cal- 

 cutta. 



kam, to love. Hind. kam. Skt. Kama, love, the 

 Hindu god of love. 



kdn, ear. Hind. kan. Skt. karna, ear. 



kasM^ stick. Skt. kashtha, stick. 



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