patteran
nounEtymology
From Romani patrin (“leaf”), perhaps specifically from an inflected form like Vlax Romani pateryánsa.
- derived from patrin
Definitions
Any of several coded signs left along a road or on a non-Roma house by one Rom to…
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.
- Follow the Romany Patteran / Sheer to the Austral Light, / Where the besom of God is the wild South wind, / Sweeping the sea-floors white.
- They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside. They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterans.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for patteran. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA