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The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Islam; Jews; Romanies
5. _Sur le mot Zagaie ou Sagaie, et accessoirement sur le nom du
soufflet de forge primitif._ From the Bulletin of the _Société
d’Anthropologie de Paris, Séance du 21 Mai_, 1874.
6. _Sur l’origine des Bohémiens ou Tsiganes, avec l’explication du
mot “Tsigane.” Lettre à la Revue Critique._ Paris: Franck, 1875.
This last publication criticises my identification of the Gypsies
and the Jats, etc.
[107] _Embéo e Majáro Lucas, etc._, now rare. This version preserved
intact many of the Spanish words used by Padre Scio, instead of
converting them into pure “Romani.” See Borrow.
[108] For instance, when Borrow makes Chai denote the men of Egypt
or the sons of Heaven, when it simply signifies children, being a
dialectic variety of the Hindi Chokra, Chokrí.
[109] A second “Tsiganida” was in the hands of the late M. Pierre
Assaki, possibly composed by one of his kinsmen.
[110] Rom (man), masc. sing.; Romá (men), masc. plur. Romni, Romniá,
woman, women; Romaní, adjectival, belonging to man. Hence our phrases
“_rum_ fellow” and “pottering Rommany.” Lom is a mere popular
mispronunciation of Rom, and Ro is a vulgar abbreviation. The latter
word I would derive from the Coptic [Greek: ρωμε: rôme] (romé), a man.
[111] The bond of language has perhaps been exaggerated by M. Alexandre
G. Paspati, _Étude sur les Tchinghianés en Bohémiens de l’Empire
Ottoman_ (Constantinople, 1870), and others, where they assert
“_l’histoire entière de cette race est dans son idiome_.”
[112] As the Jews all have especial Hebrew names for the Synagogue
besides the Gentile family-names known to the world, the Gypsies are
also binominal. Thus the Stanleys are Bar-engres (stony fellows); the
Coopers, Wardo-engres (“wheel fellows,” coopers); the Hernes, Balors
(hairs, hairy fellows); the Smiths, Petul-engres (“horseshoe fellows,”
blacksmiths); and the Lovells, Camo-mescres (amorous fellows). See _The
Zincali_.
[113] Getæ, Goths.
[114] _History of Sindh_, pp. 246, 247, and Notes, p. 411; _Scinde,
or the Unhappy Valley_, Vol. II., pp. 116-19; _Journal of the Bombay
Asiatic Society_, pp. 84-90; without including the Grammar and the
Vocabulary.
[115] _Scinde, or the Unhappy Valley_, Vol II., pp. 116-19.
[116] Alluding chiefly to Captain Postans’ _Personal Observations on
Scinde_, chap. iii.
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