[Mamzelle]

About the only reliable and interesting thing that linguists have managed in the evo-linguistics file is the discovery that the Gypsies were not Egyptian, but come from somewhere in Pakistan or India, due to all the sanskrit remnants found in "Rom."

We use a couple of Gyspy/Sanskrit words commonly. "Punch" means five, five flavors for a drink or five fingers for a fist to hit you with. Also "shiv" for blade or knife.

[little jeremiah]

Pancha means 5 in Sanskrit. Dva means two, tri means three, sapta seven. Off the top of my head.

Tumulo - tumultuous. Jugala - conjugal. (Y)Jauvana - youth (see juvenile in there?). Duhitr - daughter. Pita - father. Matra - mother. Go - cow. Raj - king (royal). Etcetcetc.