Re: [tied] Re: Gypsies again

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Gypsies again


> --- 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.
>
> 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.

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Patrick:

That is very, very interesting.

I wonder what language the supposed source word, d.omba comes from.

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