bauro

This last word posed the etymological skill of even Prof. Pott in his great work on _Die Zigeuner_, but he hazards the conjecture that _cochenos_ may be akin to the Greek [Greek text]; really the whole may be dismembered into _bauro_, great, _baval_, wind, and the English "a-catching us."

Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

The word bar for ` pound 'might have originated from the Romany word bauro ` big and heavy.'

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4 1993