We Borrow the Earth: An Intimate Portrait of the Gypsy Folk Tradition and Culture
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gaujo: non-gypsy
grai: horse
hotchiwitchi: hedgehog
hufa: cap or hat
huknies: tricks or lies
jal: to go, walk, travel (with sun’s cycle)
kalo rat: black blood
Kam: sun, the Spirit of the Sun
Keshali: a magical race of woodland people
kushto bok: good luck
meriben: life and death, existence
mokado: magically unclean
mokadi poktan: magical smock (worn during menstruation)
pal of the bor: brother of the hedge (hedgehog)
Pani: the Spirit of Water
paramoosh: dream
paramooshengro/i: storyteller
patrinyengro/i: Romani herbalist
pen: sister
poachy: pocket
posh rat: half-breed
prala: brother
Puri Dai: grandmother, ‘ancient mother’
Puro: ‘ancient father’, ancestor and teacher to PJL
puro moosh: old man
Purrum: the Lee clan
puvengro: mole or potato
Puvus or Puv: the Spirit of the Earth
rakerimasko bara: talking stones (ancient standing stones)
ran: magic wand or medicine man’s staff
Ravnos: the Spirit of the Sky
rukengro: squirrel
sarshin: how are you?
sherrengro: chief
Shon: moon, the Spirit of the Moon
tacho paramoosh: true dream
tacho Romano drom: true Romani road
urchos: early name for hedgehog
vardo: wagon or caravan
vastengri: tambourine
wafdo bok: bad luck
Yag: the Spirit of Fire