At least one-third of the words now used by Scottish Gipsies are unintelligible to their English brothers. But as I firmly believe that there is much more Gipsy in English, especially in English slang and cant, than the world is aware of, I think it advisable to suggest what I can, leaving to abler philologists the task of testing its value. For many of these words, as for instance bite, etymologists have already suggested far more plausible and more probable derivations, and if I have found a place for Rommany “roots,” it is simply because what is the most plausible, and apparently the most probable, is not always the true origin. In English Gipsy Prasser or Pross means to ridicule or scorn. Chulai signifies man in Spanish Gipsy (Borrow), and Khulai a gentleman, according to Paspati; in Turkish Rommany—a distinction which the word cully often preserves in England, even when used in a derogatory sense, as of a dupe. That it is pure old Rommany appears from the fact that it is to be found as Niglavava in Turkish Gipsy, meaning “I go,” which is also found in Nikliovava and Nikaváva, which are in turn probably derived from the Hindustani Nikalná, “To issue, to go forth or out,” &c. (Brice, Hind. sure that the person you are talking to really is who they say they Hobart School, Jockey.—Tool.—Cove or Covey.—Hook, Hookey, and Walker, Hocus, Hanky-Panky, and Hocus-Pocus.—Shindy.—Row.—Chivvy.—Bunged Eye.—Shavers.—Clichy.—Caliban.—A Rum ’un.—Pal.—Trash.—Cadger.—Cad.—Bosh.—Bats.—Chee-chee.—The Cheese.—Chiv Fencer.—Cooter.—Gorger.—Dick.—Dook.—Tanner.—Drum.—Gibberish.—Ken.—Lil.—Loure.—Loafer.—Maunder.—Moke.—Parny.—Posh.—Queer. may have noticed that words of Romany have been included in many Some Historically, most Romany speakers have not had ready access to literacy instruction, and some have consciously remained functionally nonliterate (in both Romany and the coexisting non-Romany language) in order to insulate Roma culture from alien influences. is also used by Gypsy Travellers to identify each other and to make In England it sometimes takes the form “pel.”. By the second Millennium the language became New Indo-Aryan (NIA) and had only masculine and feminine genders. Powered by WordPress and WordPress Theme created with Artisteer. Before entering on the subject of the English Gypsy, I may perhaps be expected to say something about the original Gypsy tongue. 81. COVE is not an elegant, though a very old, word, but it is well known, and I have no doubt as to its having come from the Gipsy. Corrections? The language of the Romani is also called Romani. I offer not only these three suggested derivations, but also most of the others, with every reservation. The poverty of their language in nouns the Gypsies endeavour to remedy by the frequent use of the word engro. “Jockeyism,” says Mr Borrow, “properly means the management of a whip, and the word jockey is neither more nor less than the term, slightly modified, by which they designate the formidable whips which they usually carry, and which are at present in general use among horse-traffickers, under the title of jockey-whips.” In Hungary and Germany the word occurs as tschuckini or chookni, and tschupni. addition to the Asian words are others that originate in 'Cant' For The proper way of conjugating verbs is seldom or never observed, and the English method is followed. a guide to pronunciation. I believe that to Mr Borrow is due the discovery that the word JOCKEY is of Gipsy origin, and derived from chuckni, which means a whip. The vowels typical of the Central dialects are i, e, a, o, u. Indo-Aryan retroflex consonants have disappeared from the consonantal system, while Slavic fricative and affricate sounds have been accepted.
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