The story
- Romani · derived frompatrin“leaf”
- English todaypatteran
From Romani patrin (“leaf”), perhaps specifically from an inflected form like Vlax Romani pateryánsa.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
patteran
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Romani patrin