From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 40909
Date: 2005-09-30
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:09 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Gypsies again [was: PIE word for "people"]
>
> --- In 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
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Patrick:
Thank you for providing these helpful references.
Let us assume that d.om(ba) is either onomatopoeic or Munda-derived for
'drum(ming sound)'.
I have not yet seen anything resembling proof for connecting rom(a) with it.
Also, as far as I know, the Romani are not known for drumming, or have been
so known in the recorded past.
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