Steg Belsky wrote:
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> I can't really help with this, but a friend of mine's lastname is Nemes,
> Nemesh originally (pre-immigration). It might have something to do with
> it.
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Nemesh in Hebrew is "freckle" - don't know if that helps.
> Also, i just learned that, interestingly, Hebrew is one of the few(?)
> languages to refer to Gypsys by their own name, _Romanim_ (from Romany
> "romano").
I've never heard that. The word I've heard is tzo'anim - IIRC, some
obscure Biblical term chosen because of its similarity to Zigeune.