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cove – British-English colloquial term meaning a person or chap (from kova "that person") dick – detective (potentially from dik "look", "see" and by extension "watch") [3] gadjo (masc) or gadji (fem) – a non-Romani; nark – a police informer (from nāk "nose") pal – friend (from phral "brother")
Romani people have been recorded in the United Kingdom since at least the early 16th century. There are estimated to be around 225,000 Romani people residing in the UK. This includes the Romanichal, Kale (Welsh Roma), Scottish Lowland Roma and a sizeable population of Roma from Central and Eastern Europe, who immigrated into the UK in the late 1990s/early 2000s and after EU expansion in 2004.
Examples include Brânză de burduf, Brânză de vaci, Brânză de coșuleț, and Telemea. [1] Mujdei – A spicy sauce. Palatschinke – A thin crêpe-like variety of pancake common in Central and Eastern Europe. From Latin placenta (cake) via Romanian plăcintă (cake) and Hungarian palacsinta. [2] Pastrami – A seasoned smoked cut of beef. [3]
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (abbreviated to GRT) is an umbrella term used in the United Kingdom to represent several diverse ethnic groups which have a shared history of nomadism.
The number of Romanian-born people resident in the UK has risen from 83,168 at the time of the 2011 United Kingdom census to 557,554 at the time of the 2021 United Kingdom census. Romanians constitute the fourth largest group of immigrants in England and Wales as of 2021, only behind those from Pakistan, Poland, and India.
Romanians derive their name from the Latin romanus, meaning "Roman", [232] referencing the Roman conquest of Dacia. (The Dacians were a sub-group of the Thracians .) Romanian genetics show ancient Balkan ancestry (Thracian ancestry) [ 233 ] as well as Slavic ancestry [ 234 ] and not Indian ancestry like the Roma.
The term Welsh is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner', referring to the old inhabitants of southern Britain. [21] Historically, Wales and the south-western peninsula were known respectively as North Wales and West Wales. [22] The Celtic north of England and southern Scotland was referred to in Welsh as Hen Ogledd ("old north").
An example of a phrase in Angloromani is The mush was jalling down the drom with his gry ('The man was walking down the road with his horse'). [ 2 ] This differs from the presence of loanwords (such as that used locally in Edinburgh and Northumberland ) from the Romani language, such as lollipop (originally a toffee apple ), pal (originally ...