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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Grzegorz Jagodzinski"
<grzegorj2000@...> wrote:
> 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
On the equivalence between rom ~ roma and d.om ~ d.omba in Indo-Aryan,
see the following messages by Prof. M. Witzel from the Liverpool
Indology List:
http://tinyurl.com/8h8nm
http://tinyurl.com/ca6yh
Regards,
Francesco Brighenti