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rat1, raté, rati noun night 19. etymology: probably derived from Romany rarti, rarde with the same meaning; collected by Simson (1865) and attested by five of informants; form rati collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies; form raté collected by Rev John Baird from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:

Grellmann (1787) collected the forms rat, rattigin, ratti with the same meaning from Continental gipsies with ratti also meaning specifically ‘the evening’. Smart & Crofton collected the for Ratti with the same meaning from English Gypsies.

rat2, ratte noun blood 19. etymology: Romany; Sanskrit attests rakta ‘blood’ and this could be a development from this; collected by Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informants; form ratte collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:

Grellmann (1787) collected the form rat ‘blood’ from Continental gipsies. Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form Ratt with the same meaning from English Gypsies.