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Tsingani Vocabulary
baro kumpai: the four mightiest kumpanias.
chaidrov: a route-marker, a symbol known only to Tsingani.
chavi: girl
chavo: boy
dandos: brains
Didikani: halfbreed
dromonde: the art of speaking prophecy, either looking into the
future or the past, generally a natural-born talent in women. It is
vrajna for men to speak the dromonde. Base word of "drom" or "road",
so literally: seeing down the long road
gadje: non-Tsingani people (gadjo for males; presumably gadji
for females)
galb: coin-wrought jewelry
gavvering: strict, belligerent
grya: horses
Hokkano: the many ways Tsingani part D'Angelines from their
money
Kralis: king, sovereign
kumpania: a tribe or clan
kushi gurya: good horses for sale
laxta: the unsullied virtue of a Tsingani woman. If a woman
loses her laxta, she loses all her worth
Lungo Drom: the "Long Road" that all Tsingani travel
mulo: ghost, spirit
rinkeni chavo: pretty boy
tseroman: headman of a family or kumpania
vrajna: unclean, forbidden, against the Tsingani code of
behavior
This information was contributed by:
Thoridyss Wyborn,
Initiate of the Night Court
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