noun
patteran
Patteran (noun) means one of various secret signs left beside a road, or on the house of someone who is not Roma, by one Romani person for another; the most usual form is made of crossed twigs (often from different trees or bushes), showing, for instance, which way someone has gone.
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One of various secret signs left beside a road, or on the house of someone who is not Roma, by one Romani person for another; the most usual form is made of crossed twigs (often from different trees or bushes), showing, for instance, which way someone has gone.
"They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside. They were signs in gypsy language, lost patterans."
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006)
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Etymology
From Romani patrin (“leaf”), perhaps specifically from an inflected form like Vlax Romani pateryánsa.
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"patteran" (noun) means one of various secret signs left beside a road, or on the house of someone who is not Roma, by one Romani person for another; the most usual form is made of crossed twigs (often from different trees or bushes), showing, for instance, which way someone has gone.
