- Gadji
A gadji or "gadjo" is a term of
Romani philosophy that means a person who has noromanipe . Usually, that's a person who is not an ethnic Romani, but also it can be an ethnic Rom who doesn't follow the Romani Code.This word comes from the pre-Romani word for "peasant" and has the same root as the Romani word "gav" (a village). Roma ancestors were nomadic musicians and craftspeople; they did not live in villages.
In Spanish slang, the derived " [http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?LEMA=gach%C3%B3&TIPO_HTML=2&FORMATO=ampliado gachó] " and " [http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltGUIBusUsual?LEMA=gach%C3%AD&TIPO_HTML=2&FORMATO=ampliado gachí] ", after passing through Caló, have become to mean "man, lover" and "woman, girl". In Portuguese slang, a more direct version is used with the same meaning, " [http://cognosco.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/1074832.html gajo] " and "gaja" (but usually used as a depreciative term).The slang word 'Gadgie', widely used in
Scotland andNorth East England , is another form of the original Roma word. In Japanese, gaijin refers to any non-ethnic Japanese.Romanies of the Western Europe and Americas often interpret gadjies as "impure" persons because they think that only following Romani Code may make a person be "pure". Roma of Eastern Europe do not share this opinion.
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Gadjo dilo " ("The crazy gadjo") is a French-Romanian film about a Frenchman who travels to Romania after a Roma musician.Bibliography
* Lev Tcherenkov, Stephan Laederich "The Rroma"
* Raymond Buckland "Gypsy Witchcraft & Magic"External links
* [http://www.nsad.ru/index.php?issue=43§ion=5&article=751&print=1 Caravan goes away] in Russian
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