.dombii as scavenger woman (Romani)

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

 .domba and romani are unrelated.

--- Yashwant Malaiya <malaiya at CS.COLOSTATE.EDU> wrote:

> The trail of the Romani (Gypsy) can be established with considerable
> certainly starting with about 1342. They appear to have been
> concentrated  in the region now Bulgaria and Romania, where they
> first appear as slaves. Even now they form a substantial fraction
> of the population in that region.
>
> The people mentioned by a Mount Ethos monk in 1100, may or may
> not be Romani.
>
> In Europe they have a clear identity. The ones in Turkey too are
> also clearly of the same kind. However people who can be clearly
> associated with European Gypsies in Iran are the ones that have
> migrated back from Europe. The supposedly related tribes that are
> thought to mark trail further back to India, appear to have
> questionable relationship.
>
> A possible guess is that in their current form, Gypsies have
> emanated from region near the second Rome (Constantinople),
> termed Romania. It is the second Rome that gave Jalauddin Rumi
> his name.
>
> It is not clear to me why derivation of the term Roma from
> the Constantinople region is often ruled out. If the bulk
> of the Gypsies are largely the descendants of the slaves taken
> by Turks, the slaves must be largely descendants of the farmers,
> a large  number of them being Jat in NW India, and not Dom.
>
> Yashwant
>
> http://www.unionromani.org/puebloin.htm
> Gypsies: Wanderers of the world: B. McDowell
> The Pariah Syndrome: An Account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution:
> I. Hancock
>

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