Re: [tied] Re: Gypsies again [was: PIE word for "people"]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:00 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Gypsies again [was: PIE word for "people"]


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- 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"]
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > ***
> > 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.
> >
> > ***
> *********
> Googling through the Web, I gather that the Dom of India are a
> caste with a Gypsy-Roma-like life style. The don't seem to have a
> special language of their own. I find a number of statements like
> "scholars say they are a Dravidian tribe" or "are thought to be of
> pre-Dravidian origin", but no references or supporting data.
> Dan Milton

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Patrick:

God bless Google. As usual, we find that key points in an argument are
practically unsubstantiated.

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