Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The language Romani. · A female given name.
A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc). · A member of other nomadic peoples, not only of the Romani people; a traveller. Alternative spelling of gypsy.
Of or belonging to the Romani people or one of it sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichel, etc).
A clipping of Gyptian (in Early Modern English roughly /ˈd͡ʒɪp.sɪ.æn/), itself an apheretic form of Egyptian, from Middle English Egipcian (“Egyptian”) (rarely Gypcian), from Old French egyptien, from Latin aegyptianus, from aegyptius (“Egypt”), because when Roma first appeared in England in the sixteenth century, they were wrongly believed to have come from Egypt. The Albanian evgjit, Greek γύφτος (gýftos), Italian gitano, Spanish gitano and Turkish Kıpti have the same origin. Doublet of Egyptian and Copt. The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Rom (words related to the Romani people's autonyms) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.
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