Re: Gypsies again

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> 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"]
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> > In the work "STRUCTURE AND ORIGIN OF THE KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY IN ROMA'S
> > LANGUAGE",
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> > 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.
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> > [http://www.sav.sk/journals/aas/full/aas197b.pdf%5d
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> > Grzegorz J.
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> Patrick:
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> One swallow does not a summer make.
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> 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.

But _Doma_ has a very un-Tamil initial letter:

1) It's a voiced stop - a mark of a foreign word.

2) Unlike Indic languages, Tamil does not allow words to start with
retroflex stops.

Richard.