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Suddenly I suppose because a doubt of my perfect Freemasonry had been aroused by my absurd question he said, holding up a kettle "What do you call this here in Rommanis?" "I call it a kekavi or a kavi," I said. "But it isn't right Rommany. It's Greek, which the Rommanichals picked up on their way here."
"Perhaps; but you are of the Gorgios, and I am a Rommany Chal. Tawno Chikno take care of Jasper Petulengro!" "Is that your name?" "Don't you like it?" "Very much, I never heard a sweeter; it is something like what you call me." "The horse-shoe master and the snake-fellow, I am the first." "Who gave you that name?" "Ask Pharaoh." "I would, if he were here, but I do not see him." "I am Pharaoh."
That the wandering Rommany can live at all is indeed wonderful, since not only are all other human beings less exposed to suffering than many of them, but even foxes and rabbits are better protected in their holes from storms and frost.
In his delightful naivete and simple earnestness, in his ready confidence in strangers and freedom from all suspicion in fact, in his whole deportment, this Rommany elder reminded me continually of one and of one man only whom I had known of old in America. Need I say that I refer to the excellent ?
‘I don’t know,’ said the girl, sitting down on the ground, ‘I was almost thinking—well, never mind, you don’t know Rommany. I say, brother, I think I should like to have the kekaubi.’ ‘I thought you said it was badly mended?’ ‘Yes, yes, brother, but—’ ‘I thought you said it was only fit to be played at football with?’ ‘Yes, yes, brother, but—’ ‘What will you give for it?’
But a long time ago one went away and got lost, and now there are only six; but they call them the Seven Whistlers. And that is like the story you told me of the Seven Stars. A Rommany rakli yeckorus jalled to a ker a-dukkerin'. A'ter she jalled avree, the rakli of the ker missered a plachta, and pookered the rye that the Rommany chi had chored it.
But Tawno would have nothing to do with her: “I have a wife of my own,” said he, “a lawful rommany wife, whom I love better than the whole world, jealous though she sometimes be.”’ ‘And is she very beautiful?’ said I. ‘Why, you know, brother, beauty is frequently a matter of taste; however, as you ask my opinion, I should say not quite so beautiful as himself.’
But in old Gipsy or in the German Gipsy of the present day, as in the Turkish Rommany, it means so directly "fear, mental weakness and worthlessness," that it may possibly have had a Rommany origin. Terror in Gipsy is trash, while thirst is trush, and both are to be found in the Hindustani. Tras, which means thirst and alarm or terror.
There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise the wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die? 'I would wish to die 'You talk like a gorgio which is the same as talking like a fool were you a Rommany Chal you would talk wiser. Wish to die, indeed! A Rommany Chal would wish to live for ever!
"Sass," or sauce, meaning in Gipsy, bold, forward impudence, is identical with the same English word, but it agrees very well with the Hindu sahas, bold, and was perhaps born of the latter term, although it has been brought up by the former. Dr A. F. Pott remarks of the German Gipsy word schetra, or violin, that he could nowhere find in Rommany a similar instrument with an Indian name.
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