> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Dmitry Ivanov
> Does anybody have an idea why the Indonesian word for
> "bucket" - ember - is
> so close to the Gipsy word for "bucket" - embra - ?
> (In Hindi it's differrent.)
> Another interesting coincidence I am wondering about is the
> Finnish and the
> Indonesian words for "turkey cock" - kalkkuna and kalkun
> correspondingly.
Romany is a distant offshoot of Sanskrit. Indonesian has a lot of
loanwords from Sanskrit and Indic languages so that would be my first
guess. The Finnish and Indonesian similarities could just be a
coincidence. A google search for the etymologies should give better
information.