eeskendereyeh

Updated: May 7, 2025

The English Gipsy calls a mermaid a pintni; in Hindu it is bint ool buhr, a maid of the sea. Bero in Gipsy is the sea or a ship, but the Rommany had reduced the term to the original bint, by which a girl is known all over the East. "Ya bint' Eeskendereyeh."

Charles Godfrey Leland - The English Gipsies and Their Language