| Gipsy. |  | And rigs (carry) for leste (him) the | gono (sack, game-bag). |
| Bhojpuri. | | gon |
| Gipsy. | | Oprey (above) the | rukh (tree) | adrey (within) the | wesh (wood) |
| Bhojpuri. | Upri | rukh | andal | besh |
| Gipsy. | | Are | chiriclo (male-bird) and | chiricli (female-bird). |
| Bhojpuri. | | chirin | chirin |
| Gipsy. | | Tuley (below) the | rukh (tree) | adrey (within) the | wesh (wood) |
| Bhojpuri. | Tule | rukh | andal | besh |
| Gipsy. | | Are | pireno (lover) and | pireni (lady-love). |
| Bhojpuri. | | pyara | pyāri |
In the above it must be remembered that the verbal terminations of the gipsy text are English and not gipsy.”
Sir G. Grierson also adds (in the passage first quoted): “I may note here a word which lends a singular confirmation to the theory. It is the gipsy term for bread, which is mānrō or manro. This is usually connected either with the Gaudian mānr ‘rice-gruel’ or with manrua, the millet (Eleusine coracana). Neither of these agrees with the idea of bread, but in the Magadhi dialect of Bihāri, spoken south of the Ganges in the native land of these Maghiya Doms, there is a peculiar word mānda or mānra which means wheat, whence the transition to the gipsy mānrō, bread, is eminently natural.”
The above argument renders it probable that the gipsies are derived from the Doms; and as Mr. Nesfield gives it as a common legend that they originated from the Kanjars, this is perhaps another connecting link between the Doms and Kanjars. The word gipsy is probably an abbreviation of ‘Egyptian,’ the country assigned as the home of the gipsies in mediaeval times. It has already been seen that the Doms are the bards and minstrels of the lower castes in the Punjab, and that the Kanjars and Sānsias, originally identical or very closely connected, were in particular the bards of the Jāts. It is a possible speculation that they may have been mixed up with the lower classes of Jāts or have taken their name, and that this has led to the confusion between the Jāts and gipsies. Some support is afforded to this suggestion by the fact that the Kanjars of Jubbulpore say that they have three divisions, the Jāt, Multāni and Kūchbandia. The Jāt Kanjars are, no doubt, those who acted as bards to the Jāts, and hence took the name; and if the ancestors of these people emigrated from India they may have given themselves out as Jāt.