{19} From the observations of Frederic Drew (The Northern Barrier
of India, London, 1877) there can be little doubt that the Dom, or
Dum, belong to the pre-Aryan race or races of India. “They are
described in the Shastras as Sopukh, or Dog-Eaters” (Types of India
). I have somewhere met with the statement that the Dom was pre-Aryan,
but allowed to rank as Hindoo on account of services rendered to the
early conquerors.
{22} Up-stairs in this gentleman's dialect signified up or upon,
like top Pidgin-English.
{23} Puccasa, Sanskrit. Low, inferior. Given by Pliny E.
Chase in his Sanskrit Analogues as the root-word for several
inferior animals.
{26} A Trip up the Volga to the Fair of Nijni-Novgovod. By H.
A. Munro Butler Johnstone. 1875.
{42} Seven Years in the Deserts of America.
{61} In Old English Romany this is called dorrikin; in common
parade, dukkerin. Both forms are really old.
{68} Flower-flag-nation man; that is, American.
{69a} Leadee, reads.
{69b} Dly, dry.
{69c} Lun, run.
{82} Diamonds true. O latcho bar (in England, tatcho bar
), “the true or real stone,” is the gypsy for a diamond.
{97} Within a mile, Maginn lies buried, without a monument.
{108} Mashing, a word of gypsy origin (mashdva),
meaning fascination by the eye, or taking in.
{125} Goerres, Christliche Mystik, i. 296. 1. 23.
{134} The Saxons in England, i. 3.
{159} Peru urphu! “Increase and multiply!” Vide
Bodenschatz Kirchliche Verfassung der Juden, part IV. ch. 4,
sect. 2.
{209} The Past in the Present, part 2, lect. 3
{222} Yoma, fol. 21, col. 2.
{238} Zimbel. The cymbal of the Austrian gypsies is a
stringed instrument, like the zitter.
{241} Crocus, in common slang an itinerant quack, mountebank,
or seller of medicine; Pitcher, a street dealer.
{270} A brief resume of the most characteristic gypsy mode of
obtaining property.
{279} Lady, in gypsy rani. The process of degradation is
curiously marked in this language. Rani (rawnee), in
Hindi, is a queen. Rye, or rae, a gentleman, in its
native land, is applicable to a nobleman, while rashai, a
clergyman, even of the smallest dissenting type, rises in the original
rishi to a saint of the highest order.
{280} This was the very same affair and the same gypsies described
and mentioned on page 383 of In Gypsy Tents, by Francis Hindes
Groome, Edinburgh, 1880. I am well acquainted with them.
{285} Primulaveris: in German Schlussel blume, that
is, key flowers; also Mary's-keys and keys of heaven. Both the primrose
and tulip are believed in South Germany to be an Open Sesame to hidden
treasure.
{292} Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat.
{293} Johnnykin and the Goblins. London: Macmillan.
{302a} Vide Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xvi.
part 2, 1856 p. 285.
{302b} Die Zigeuner.
{307a} The Dialect of the English Gypsies.
{307b} I beg the reader to bear it in mind that all this is
literally as it was given by an old gypsy, and that I am not
responsible for its accuracy or inaccuracy.
{317a} Literally, the earth-sewer.
{317b} Kali foki. Kalo means, as in Hindustani, not
only black, but also lazy. Pronounced kaw-lo.
{319a} Gorgio. Gentile; any man not a gypsy. Possibly from
ghora aji “Master white man,” Hindu. Used as goi is applied
by Hebrews to the unbelievers.
{319b} Romeli, rom'ni. Wandering, gypsying. It is
remarkable that remna, in Hindu, means to roam.
{320} Chollo-tem. Whole country, world.
{324} There is a great moral difference, not only in the gypsy mind,
but in that of the peasant, between stealing and poaching. But in fact,
as regards the appropriation of poultry of any kind, a young English
gypsy has neither more nor less scruple than other poor people of his
class.
{325} Man lana, Hindostani: to set the heart upon. Manner, Eng. Gyp.: to encourage; also, to forbid.
{327} Chovihan, m., chovihani, fem., often cho'ian
or cho'ani, a witch. Probably from the Hindu 'toanee, a witch,
which has nearly the same pronunciation as the English gypsy word.
{335} Travels in Beloochistan and Scinde, p. 153.
{341a} English gypsies also call the moon shul and shone.
{341b} Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, by Dr. Henry Rink.
London 1875, p. 236.