Romany

/ ˈrəʊ-; ˈrɒmənɪ /

noun

1. -nies-nis
   1. another name for a Gypsy
   2. ( as modifier )

      Romany customs

2. the language of the Gypsies, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family, but incorporating extensive borrowings from local European languages. Most of its 250 000 speakers are bilingual. It is extinct in Britain

Word History and Origins

Origin of Romany¹

C19: from Romany romani (adj) Gypsy, ultimately from Sanskrit domba man of a low caste of musicians, of Dravidian origin

Example Sentences

They are fearless and without religion, save superstition, and they talk only their own varieties of the Romany tongue.

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Petuléngro, farrier, the esoteric Romany name of the Smith family.

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First of all I made her give me a good bit of bacon, and then I began to mumble a few words in Romany.

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I have surely said enough to give the readers of Carmen a favourable idea of my Romany studies.

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In the Spanish Romany the verbs are all conjugated on the model of the first conjugation of the Castilian verbs.

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