Gyped or gypt

Posted by Bruce Kahl on April 17, 2001

In Reply to: Gyped or gypt posted by RANDALL on April 16, 2001

: I belive this pertains to the past tense of hving been in the company of a gypsie/gypsy, and being tricked out of your money or whatever as in "I've been gypdt'. How would you spell gyptd correctly and what is the meaninbg/origin??

The word is gypped or gyped as related to gypsy.

Quite stereotypical and racist to link a whole group of people to being thieves.

The Roma have been made up of many different groups of people from the very beginning, and have absorbed outsiders throughout their history. Because they arrived in Europe from the East, they were thought by the first Europeans to be from Turkey or Nubia or Egypt, or any number of vaguely acknowledged non-European places, and they were called, among other things, Egyptians or 'Gyptians, which is where the word "Gypsy" comes from. In some places, this Egyptian identity was taken entirely seriously, and was no doubt borrowed by the early Roma themselves. In the 15th century, James the Fifth of Scotland concluded a treaty with a local Romani leader pledging the support of his armies to help recover "Little Egypt" (an old name for Epirus, on the Greek-Albanian coast) for them.

Gypped or gyped RANDALL 04/17/01
- Gypped or gyped R. Berg 04/17/01
  - Gypped or gyped RANDALL 04/17/01
    - Gyp--origins R. Berg 04/17/01
      - Gyp--origins. Another expression James Briggs 04/17/01
        
        Gyp--origins. Another expression Q 04/17/01
        
        Gyp and gypsies R. Berg 04/17/01
        
        Gypsies Israel Cohen 05/13/01
        
        Another "gyp" theory ESC 04/17/01
        
        Another "gyp" theory James Briggs 04/18/01
        
        Gyps at Cambridge R. Berg 04/19/01