George Henry Borrow

Romano Lavo-Lil George Henry Borrow

The Gypsies of England call their language, as the Gypsies of many other countries call theirs, Romany or Romanes, a wordeither derived from the Indian Ram or Rama, which signifies a husband, or from the town Rome, which took its name either from the Indian Ram, or from the Gaulic word, Rom, which is nearly tantamount to husband orman, for as the Indian Ram means a husband or man, so does the GaulicPom signify that which constitutes a man and enables him to become ahusband...