Manfri's Word List: R-Y

R
rabbit - drummer, shoshi
rabbit-snare - paramíkri
rag and bone dealing - totting, tatting
rain - brushíndo
rain, to - pani, pan
raspberries - smowrélias
real, true - tatcho
red - lalo, lala
redcurrant - rosela, ribiséla
redpole - lólochírillo
resemble, to - sim
ring - fauni
ring on finger - wóngustrin
ritually unclean; impure; dirty - mókadi, mókado, móggerdowie
road - drom, drum; pl. droma
road - tober
robin - lólodúianchír
Romany man - Rom
run away - jass
run, to - praster

S
sailor - tiffi
salt - lon
sauce, gravey, soup - skimmin
scarf - diklo
sea, ocean - deriav
seagull - chaipáni
self - kókkero
sell, to - bickin
send, to; transport, to - bitcher
sent across, transported - bítchado pardál
seven - efta
sheep - bokro
ship - bero
shirt - gad, miltog
shoes - chókalis
shoot, to - splogger
shop - búriker, buteker
shop - chover
shut, to - kliss
signpost - the kosht that pookers the drom, the pookering-kosh
silver - rap, rup, rup, rupper
sing, to - chaunt, chir
sister - pen
sit, to; nest - besh
six - shoav
six months - sixmoon
skewer - spíngarus
sleep - sootti
smith - pútcherléngro
smutty - mélali
snail - bauri
snake - sap, sarp, sapper
snare - titlaméngro
snow - eef
snow - snaff, shiv
sock, stocking - holofer
soldier - kooli
son - chikno
song - gilli, pl. gillia
songs - djilia
speak, to - pen
spirits (alcohol) - táttipáni
spoon - rull
squirrel - rúkkersaméngri
stack - stoggers, stoggrus
stay, to - atch, hatch: I stop, remain - atchava: stopping place - atchava tan
steal, to - chor
stink - summa
stockings - olivas
stomach - pir
stop, to - 'chav (from atchav): I stop - 'chava: stop! - 'chavaia!
stranger - gájikano
strawberries - slabérias
sugar, sweet - goodlo
summons, a - bister
swede - snokrel

T
take, to; catch, to - lel
talk, to - rokker
taste - kang
tea - meski
ten - desh
tent; noose on a spring - bender
testicles - goolis
there - adoi
these - coaver
thing - kovva
thing, a - chat, chet, chete
things - kola
thirty - trindesh, trinanda
thousand - déshshel
three - dwin, trin
throw, to - ding, wooshter
to - ki
to spy out the land - múshgaying
toad - dacker
tobacco - foggus, toov, tuv
tobacco; to smoke - tuv
tongs - yogéstowásto
tongue, speech - chib
tooth - dand, teeth - danners
town - gav
trail - trushul
tramp; traveller without any Romany blood - mumper, mumpli, hedgemumper, hedgecrawler: the ways of a mumper - mumpli
trap - klíssiméngero
tree - ruk, rukker
trolley - sólivárdo
trolley, light cart - shóllivárdo
trousers - rákonis, twilers
trout - muréngrimátchi, orélla
truth - táchiben
turnip - konáfni, kraftni
TV set - dinilo's dikkaméngro
two - dui

U
uncle - kako, kokko
up, upon - opréy, 'prey

V
vagina - minj
vegetables, foliage, greens, herbs - chitries
violin - bosh: play the fiddle - kel the bosh: violinist - boshoméngro; balánokosht is the violin bow

W
wagon, caravan, trolley, covered vehicle, cart - vardo, wardo
walk, to - ped
water - pauni, pani, parni
water wagtail - rómanichírilo
watercress - pánishók
well, all right - misto
wheel - boler
whip - chooper
whistle, a - móoikósht
wife; girlfriend; used to mean woman - monisha, monishi, mollisher
will-o'-the-wisp - mulésko dud
wind - bavol, baval
window - glaze, glazey, glazer
wire - saster
witch - bun, choviar, chóvihánni
woman - joovi, mort, juvel, juvli
wood, stick - kosh, kosht
woollen - poshumésko
work - booti

Y
yes - arva, arvalie
you - tutóoti, tooti
young - tarno, tauno, tauni

taken from In the Life of a Romany Gypsy by Manfri Frederick Wood

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