Carbon County News | 1910-12-23 | Page 8 | "Romany."

romany many blany suggestions bare have been made to explain the term rom or applied to the gypsies the tt list Is that of leo winer ID in the journal of the gypsy lore society for or april he ile point points out that the name la Is current la in christian countries countr lea only europ america and armenia prom from the law of charlemagne it appear appears that the gypsies pretended to be and their name wa was usually contented ed with that of rome ultimately be he thinks it originated la in the greek I 1 eri ert mites a hermit and that when the popular etymology ety connected all hermits and nd pilgrim pilgrims with rome all oth er terms designated pilgrim pilgrims were to 0 o transformed trani formed aa as to bring them into keeping with this new dew idea