R Romano Lavo-Lil Word Book of the Romany; Or, English Gypsy Language George Borrow

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Romano Lavo-Lil

Word Book of the Romany; Or, English Gypsy Language

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First published: 1874
Pages: 149

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Romano Lavo-Lil is a word-book of the Romany, or English Gypsy language, by George Borrow, with specimens of Gypsy poetry and an account of certain gypsyries or places inhabited by them. The text says the English Gypsies can count up to six and have the numerals for ten and twenty, and that for seven and eight they have recourse to very uncouth and roundabout methods, saying dui trins ta yeck, two threes and one, and dui stors, or two fours.

The text prints verses with the refrain Birandón, birandón, birandéra, among them a verse that begins Meró Malbrun mi eráy. A Gypsy hands the speaker a chair and says: I am now ready to talk to you as much as you please about Nokkum words and matters, for I see there is no danger.

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George Borrow

George Borrow was an English writer, translator, linguist, and traveler whose books draw on encounters across Britain and continental Europe. John Murray issued Lavengro in 1851; it blends autobiography and fiction as its wandering narrator moves through barrack towns, London literary work, and meetings with Romani communities.