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in reply to a message by lizka
thank you for your help, do you know about some indian names used untill today by gypsy people - i was told that gypsy name Rada comes from Radha ..
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I am the wrong person to ask ... a large part of the vocabulary of the Romani language is still recognizably Indian (Hindi), and so modern coinages can't always be distinguished from ancient survivals.
But, if Rads is indeed derived from Radha, it would surprise me: rAdhA may have become popular in western India after the mythological love story involving that character reached there, and I somehow thought that the gypsies had left India before that. I need to double check my time line because I am trying to remember things I was interested in a long time back, and haven't thought about since.
Intuitively, if there is a slavic origin possible, or connection with some other Indian word, I would go with that instead.
But, if Rads is indeed derived from Radha, it would surprise me: rAdhA may have become popular in western India after the mythological love story involving that character reached there, and I somehow thought that the gypsies had left India before that. I need to double check my time line because I am trying to remember things I was interested in a long time back, and haven't thought about since.
Intuitively, if there is a slavic origin possible, or connection with some other Indian word, I would go with that instead.
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