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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.

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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.

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Intuitively, if there is a slavic origin possible, or connection with some other Indian word, I would go with that instead.