The Gipsies came from India." "And don't you think, sir, that we're of the children of the lost Ten Tribes ?" "I am quite sure that you never had a drop of blood in common with them.
Tell me, do you know any Gipsy _gilis_--any songs ?" "Only a bit of a one, sir; most of it isn't fit to sing, but it begins--" And here he sang: "Jal 'dree the ker my honey, And you shall be my rom." And chanting this, after thanking me, he departed, gratified with his gratuity, rejoiced at his reception, and most undoubtedly benefited by the beer with which I had encouraged his palaver--a word, by the way, which is not inappropriate, since it contains in itself the very word of words, the _lav_, which means a word, and is most antiquely and excellently Gipsy.

Pehlevi is old Persian, and to _pen lavi_ is Rommany all the world over "to speak words.".