448 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 19U. 



which every word can be made a Gypsy one and admitted for 

 use into the « ' secret code." This is common also to the jargon 

 of the derwishes. But it seems that Gypsy suffixes are of 

 natural origin and were already in use for the formation of adjec- 

 tives, participles, etc., etc., as appears from their likeness to 

 those used in other Gyspy dialects. Seemingly there is now no 

 difference in the use of these suffixes : ok, nok, tok (in Zorl oak) 

 perhaps fr. P. dim. surf.— ek, ik or chi, die, huz— perhaps 

 Engl. G.— us, os, amus, etc. of the subst. turn, torn, kom, him, 

 (in Zorl kai) Engl. G.—um, pen, tan, which can be used with 

 every substantive. 



Dew— is very rare, as also— ugo, e.g.—shdlugo=P. shdl. 



Ex. shirdew, shirkom, shirtum^P. shir; muchok=P. mu ; 

 shirmok = P. shlrln, etc., etc. 



Gurghuz = P. gurg., etc. 



Ohis or gis are used for the names of the relations : bogis = 

 father; mogis = mother ; khorghis = sister, etc. 



The prefixes, which Mr. Denys Bray says occur in Zorl, I 

 have not met with. Perhaps this feature in Zorl originates 

 from Brahul, and other influences. 



V. 



Vocabulary. 



Ar. means here Arabic word. B— the dialect of Biabunak, 

 a province of Central Persia. H— Hindi and Hindustani. 

 ' % — llt erary Persian. Q— the dialect of Qainat (East Persia). 

 M* -the Gypsy of England, as in B. Smart and Crofton, The 

 Dialect of the English Gypsies, 2nd ed., Lond. 1875. 



J, S and Kh— the dialects of the Gypsies of Jiruft, Sir j an 

 and rvhorasan, as in Mr. Sykes' notice in the J. of Anthropol. 

 Society of G. B. and I. v. XXXVI, 1906, p. 302. 



»„ cr"T the dlalect of the G. of Kerman, as pr. in the notice by 

 Mr. Sykes, op. cit. v. XXXII, 1902, p. 339 



T 



1 



Memoir on 

 Also see v. 



II (1891--old ser.) of the J. of the Gyps V Lo're Soc, the extract 

 from Sir Ouseley 's ' « Travels. " 



o* Na ^V~ the d * of Naw ^rs or Zotts, from the papers of Prof 

 Stewart Macalister in the J. of the Gvpsv " 

 and V (new ser.). J 



Lore Soc. vv. Ill 



A. 



Abtl (?), P kheyli (A), J ubil, S uil— much, plenty. 

 ajuden ajo(den) H jana (?)-cause, come, make. 

 afcul. J haluk, S aluk-a. walnut. 

 at, aluko, alugo (Turkish altinl)—* coin of shahi. 

 ammt, amrot, P in, im, H G m*_to-night. 



