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Sanskrit coráyati, Hungarian csór-

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Leslie C. Tihany
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Language , Volume 16 , Issue 2-Part1: April-June , June 1940, pp. 151 - 153
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Copyright © 1940 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Cf. Magyar Etymologiai Szótár 7.1151.

2 F. Sztojka, Magyar és Cigány Nyelv Gyökszótára (Uszód 1886) 941.

3 E. Györffy, Magyar és Cigány Szótár (Paks 1885) 19-22.

4 A. G. Paspati, Memoir on the Language of the Gypsies as now used in the Turkish Empire, JAOS (1862) 7.217-8.

5 J.-A. Vaillant, Grammaire, Dialogues et Vocabulaire de la Langue Rommane des Sigans (Paris 1861) 369.

6 Paspati 7.217-8.

7 Vaillant 101.

8 G. Borrow, The Zincali; or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain; with . . . a copious Dictionary of their Language (London 1841) 2.122.

9 D. A. Jimenez, Vocabulario del Dialecto Jitano (Sevilla 1846) 56, 79.

10 G. Borrow, Romano Lavo-Lil: Word-Book of Romany; or, English Gypsy Language (London 1874) 32.

11 J. C. Sundberg, Sanskrit Words in the Vocabulary of Norwegian Gypsies, JAOS (1902) 23.362.

12 Paspati 7.233.

13 [The wide diffusion of the Gypsy word cor ‘thief’ is further exemplified by its presence in the Neapolitan jargon of the Camorra in the form ciori 'esecutori d'un furto': cf. U. Pellis, AGI. 22-3.568 (1929); P. S. Pasquali, JGLS 3.14.46 (1934); M. L. Wagner, VR 1.281 (1936). Wagner further cites the forms cior 'ladro’ and ciuribe 'furto semplice', the latter with the derivational suffix -ipe(n), -ibe(n).-Robert A. Hall Jr.]