Romany

/ ˈrɒmənɪ; ˈrəʊ- /

noun

-nies-nis
1. another name for a Gypsy
2. ( as modifier )
  Romany customs
the language of the Gypsies, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family, but incorporating extensive borrowings from local European languages. Most of its 250 000 speakers are bilingual. It is extinct in Britain

C19: from Romany romani (adj) Gypsy, ultimately from Sanskrit domba man of a low caste of musicians, of Dravidian origin

They are fearless and without religion, save superstition, and they talk only their own varieties of the Romany tongue.

Petuléngro, farrier, the esoteric Romany name of the Smith family.

First of all I made her give me a good bit of bacon, and then I began to mumble a few words in Romany.

I have surely said enough to give the readers of Carmen a favourable idea of my Romany studies.

In the Spanish Romany the verbs are all conjugated on the model of the first conjugation of the Castilian verbs.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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