Note 25 — THE GYPSIES

It may not be amiss to give the etymology of the word engro, which so frequently occurs in compound words in the English Gypsy tongue:—the en properly belongs to the preceding noun, being one of the forms of the genitive case; for example, Elik-en boro congry, the great Church or Cathedral of Ely; the gro or geiro (Spanish guero), is the Sanscrit kar, a particle much used in that language in the formation of compounds; I need scarcely add that monger in the English words Costermonger, Ironmonger, etc., is derived from the same root.