Talk:List of English words of Romani origin

Curious to know how certain the Romany origins are

Are the origins of these words firmly established as Romany? Or is there debate among linguists about where they really came from? Just curious.50.205.142.50 (talk) 22:16, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

dubious classification

A lot of the more well-known words on this list, if you go to their pages, have them being of Romani origin as only one possible etymology or do not mention it at all. Considering the lack of sources on this page, a trimming seems necessary. --Eldomtom2 (talk) 23:39, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

2022-04-07 clean-up of the page

I cleaned up the list. The current set of words have their etymology detailed here, at the linked Wikipedia page, or in Wiktionary.

I removed the following words that didn't have any sources I could (easily) find:

• bar - 'stone' in Romani, but colloquially used to mean a pound coin
• cory - a member of a youth subculture (from cha = "child")
  • appears to be an error for chav
• cuttout - easy, good, fine (from the Romani word kusht or kushti)
• donn - idiot (either from the Romani word dilo meaning "fool", or di meaning "crazy")
• geera - man or bloke, sometimes a dodgy, unpleasant or suspicious man. (Often Scottish slang.) From the Romani word "Ass meaning non-Romani.
• malle - to go, from the Romani word jall
• mu - colloquial meaning a man, a bloke, from Romani mush meaning man.
• meow - to steal, from the Romani word meaning the same
• rachel - a female, from the Romani word "radio " meaning the same
• togs - clothes (colloquial) from the Romani word togs meaning clothes
  • Wiktionary derives this from Latin toga
• une shaleeki. Meaning 100 dollar bill
• ushyi - good (from the Romani word kusht or kushti)

Tocharianne (talk) 14:48, 7 April 2022 (UTC)