patteran

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several coded signs left along a road or on a non-Roma house by one Rom to another. The most common ones consist of crossed sprigs (usually of different trees or shrubs) indicating, for example, a direction travelled.

Word forms

patteran patterans patrin

Etymology

From Romani patrin (“leaf”), perhaps specifically from an inflected form like Vlax Romani pateryánsa.

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