Dur-dicki mengri, _s._ Telescope. Lit. far-seeing-thing.
Durro, _ad._ Far.
Durro-der, _ad._ Farther.
Durriken, _s._ Fortune-telling.
Durril, _s._ Any kind of berry, a gooseberry in particular.
Durrilau / Durilyor, _pl._ Berries.
Durrileskie guyi, _s._ Gooseberry pudding.
Dusta, _a. s._ Enough, plenty: dusta foky, plenty of people. _See_
Dosta.
Duvvel, _s._ God.
E
EANGE, _s._ Itch.
Ebyok, _s._ The sea. _Sans._ Aapa (water). _Wal._ Ape.
Eft, _a._ Seven. Few of the English Gypsies are acquainted with this
word; consequently, the generality, when they wish to express the number
seven, without being understood by the Gorgios or Gentiles, say Dui trins
ta yeck, two threes and one.
En. A kind of _genitive particle_ used in compound words, being placed
between a noun and the particle ‘gro’ or ‘guero,’ which signifies a
possessor, or that which governs a thing or has to do with it: _e.g._
lav-en-gro, a linguist or man of words, lit. word-of-fellow; wesh-en-gro,
a forester, or one who governs the wood; gurush-en-gre, things costing a
groat, lit. groat-of-things.
Engri. A _neuter affix_, composed of the particles ‘en’ and ‘gro,’ much
used in the formation of figurative terms for things for which there are
no positive names in English Gypsy: for example, yag-engri, a fire-thing,
which denotes a gun; poggra-mengri, a breaking-thing or mill; ‘engri’ is
changed into ‘mengri’ when the preceding word terminates in a vowel.
Engro. A _masculine affix_, used in the formation of figurative names;
for example, kaun-engro, an ear-fellow, or creature with ears, serving to
denote a hare; ruk-engro, or ruko-mengro, a tree-fellow, denoting a
squirrel; it is also occasionally used in names for inanimate objects, as
pov-engro, an earth-thing or potato. _See_ Guero.
Escunyo, _s._ A wooden skewer, a pin. _Span. Gyp._ Chingabar (a pin).
Escunyes, _pl._ Skewers.
Escunye-mengro, _s._ A maker of skewers.
Eskoe, _fem._ Eskie. A particle which affixed to a noun turns it into an
adjective: _e.g._ Duvel, God; duveleskoe, divine. It seems to be derived
from the _Wal._ Esk, Easkie.
Eskey. An _affix_ or _postposition_, signifying, for the sake of: _e.g._
Mi-dubble-eskey, for God’s sake.
Ever-komi, _ad._ Evermore.
F
FAKE, _v. a._ To work, in a dishonest sense; to steal, pick pockets.
Fakement, _s._ A robbery, any kind of work: a pretty fakement that, a
pretty piece of work. A scoundrel—you ratfelo fakement, you precious
scoundrel; a man of any kind—he’s no bad fakement after all; a girl, St.
Paul’s Cathedral—what a rinkeny fakement, what a pretty girl, what a
noble church.
Fashono, _a._ False, fashioned, made up. _Wal._ Fatche (to make); fatze
(face, surface).
Fashono wangustis. Pretended gold rings, made in reality of brass or
copper.
Fashono wangust engre. Makers of false rings.
Fenella. A female Gypsy name.
Ferreder, _a._ Better, more. _Gaelic_, Feairde.
Fetér, _ad._ Better. _Pers._ بهتر _Span. Gyp._ Fetér.
Figis, _s._ Fig.
Figis-rookh, _s._ Fig-tree.
Filisen, _s._ Country-seat.
Fino, _a._ Fine. This word is not pure Gypsy: fino covar, a fine thing.
Floure, _s._ Flower; a female Gypsy name.
Fordel, _v. a._ Forgive; generally used for Artav, or Artavello, _q.v._,
and composed of the English ‘for’ and the Gypsy ‘del.’
Fordias / Fordios, _part. pass._ Forgiven.
Foros, _s._ City. _See_ Vauros.
Ful, _s._ Dung: ful-vardo, muck cart.
Fuzyanri, _s._ Fern. _Hun._ Füz (willow), fácska (a shrub), füszár (a
stem).
G
GAD, _s._ A shirt: pauno gad, a clean shirt.
Gare, _v. n._, _v. a._ To take care, beware; to hide, conceal. _Sans._
Ghar, to cover.
Garridan. You hid: luvvu sor garridan, the money which you hid.
Garrivava, _v. a._ I hide or shall hide, take care: to gare his
nangipen, to hide his nakedness.