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Romano Lavo-Lil (Romany Dictionary)
George Borrow
Romano Lavo-Lil (Romany Dictionary)
George Borrow
Book Excerpt: ...differ much from the original Gypsy speech; so that when speaking of Gypsy language, any one of these may be taken as a standard. One of them--I shall not mention which--I have selected for that purpose, more from fancy than any particular reason. The Gypsy language, then, or what with some qualification I may call such, may consist of some three thousand words, the greater part of which are decidedly of Indian origin, being connected with the Sanscrit or some other Indian dialect; the rest consist of words picked up by the Gypsies from various languages in their wanderings from the East. It has two genders, masculine and feminine; o represents the masculine and i the feminine: for example, boro rye, a great gentleman; bori rani, a great lady. There is properly no indefinite article: gajo or gorgio, a man or gentile; o gajo, the man. The noun has two numbers, the singular and the plural. It has various cases formed by postpositions, but has, strictly speaking, no genitive. It has prepositions as w...
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 3, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798684037351 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 372 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 20 mm · 494 g |
Language | English |
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