vardo

See also: Vardø and Vårdö

English
a vardo

Etymology

Borrowed from Angloromani vardo, from Romani vordon, from Ossetian уӕрдон (wærdon), from Old Persian 𐎺𐎼𐎫 (vart-), from Proto-Iranian *wart- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wart-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, rotate”).[1] [2]

Noun

vardo (plural vardos or vardoes)

  1. A traditional horse-drawn wagon used by the Romani.

References
  1. Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*u̯art”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 423–425
  2. Yaron Matras ((Can we date this quote?)) Romani: A Linguistic Introduction

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