From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 40861
Date: 2005-09-29
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From: "Grzegorz Jagodzinski" <grzegorj2000@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:11 AM
Subject: [tied] Gypsies again [was: PIE word for "people"]
> In the work "STRUCTURE AND ORIGIN OF THE KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN ROMA'S
> LANGUAGE",
>
> Svetislav KOSTIC' of Institute of Indology, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles
> University, Prague, Czechia, confirms the relation between rom, roma
> 'Gypsy;
> husband' and the name of the caste Doma. Its connection with Skr. ra:ma is
> very dobtful then.
>
> [http://www.sav.sk/journals/aas/full/aas197b.pdf%5d
>
> Grzegorz J.
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Patrick:
One swallow does not a summer make.
If you have access there, I would be curious to know more about Doma; its
language affiliation (presumably Tamil???), and what Doma means in it.
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