Re: VMs: one more way ... speculating wildly toward India

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Borek Lupomesky wrote:
> Funny thing, in Czech this "chor" (written with c with caron instead of
> ch) is stem used in very slang words that involve thievry...

A potential connection between Indian languages and European cants and
slang is Romany, an Indo-Aryan language (or group of dialects) spoken in
Europe starting in the Middle Ages.  There are a certain number of loans
in English from this source, e.g., rum cove < rum kava 'gypsy thing or
person'.  However, I don't happen to have any Romany dictionaries to check
this hypothesis with, and perhaps more importantly I don't know enough
about Slavic languages to know if this stem is at all widespread in them
for other reasons!

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