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Subject: Re: Romany and Romanian
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--- In lojban@y..., Pierre Abbat <phma@o...> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2001 21:15, pycyn@a... wrote:
> > How did we get 'em confused in the first place? One is eccentric Romanc=
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e,
> > the eccentric Indic and, though I suppose the Dom came through Roumania=
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on
> > their way to Western Europe, I don't think they lingered there more tha=
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n
> > most places (til next week's pogrom). As far as I ever heard (never in=
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> > ideals circumstances) the initial consonant in the Gypsy selfname is a
> > retroflex voiced stop, whence the d/r variation. Maybe we can call the=
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m
> > Doms (Indians regularly take English alveolars as retroflex since they =
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are
> > back of the native detnals).
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> I found the word {natmrsindo} on the tutra pe le terdi page. Where did th=
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> come from?

Romania in Romanian is spelled like in English (where the final-a is the ar=
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ticle, without it it's just "Rom=E2nie").
Its pronounced different though: about {romyNIa} or {romyNIe}.
The R. language is "rom=E2neste" {romynecte} or "limba rom=E2na" {limba rom=
Yny}=3D=0D
.

"romno" m, or "romni" f, means gypsy man or woman. "Roma" now refers to Gyp=
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sies from Eastern European decent, "Sinti"=20
(Sindi) is the name for German (Western) Gypsy people. (sindo=3Dman).

Originally, "rom" (romm, xom, rum, romma, rommi) means "man" (male), husban=
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d, Gypsy (e.g. rom=E9skro=3Dmale, romeskro dad=3D
father-in-law, rom=E9skri dai=3Dmother-in-law, romedino=3Dmarried etc. etc.=
). It'=3D=0D
s from aind. "dom"=3Dman from low decent who plays=20
music in the streets etc.

sinto (sindo, sendo, mostly in pl. sindi, sindhi, sendi, sinte, zinde etc.)=
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from Hindustani: s=E4nt, Balochi: sand, Sindhi: sandhu, Pali:=20
sandhi with the meaning of Bund, joined group etc. (hindustan.: sathi=3Dcom=
ra=3D=0D
de)

mi'e .aulun.