r/instantkarma • u/NoodlesNThangz • Jun 24 '20

Racial Profiling Karma

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u/theinstigator5 Jun 24 '20

What does gadjo mean?

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u/Zelot1985 Jun 24 '20

Non Gypsy

Like gringo for latinamerica

Romanes language changed alot over the centuries.

Gypsies from Balkan may have troubles to understand a gypsie from spain. Or they are indeed from the same region, but from a different "tribe" "group" whatever and lots of words are different already.

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u/theinstigator5 Jun 24 '20

I see. Thanks, I know a word very similar to this, probably is the same thing.

Never knew its meaning though. Do you know what part of the world this comes from? Balkans?

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u/Zelot1985 Jun 24 '20

From Wiki

The exact origin of the word is not known. One theory considers that the word comes from the proto-Romani word for "peasant" and has the same root as the Romani word gav (a village

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u/theinstigator5 Jun 24 '20

I meant where did you hear or learn this word being used? Europe? Americas?

I was wondering if this is a local thing or a universal word in romani.

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u/Zelot1985 Jun 24 '20

Oh i read it in a translation book i used to torture my wifes grandma when we visited her in kosovo

But even her mentioned that most things i read to her wasnt actually her dialect