Appendix

My thanks to friends and colleagues who responded to my fleeting call-out for planetary vocabularies of “the traveler” that exceed the limitations of “the immigrant.” It is a list in formation, presumably as infinite as the earth’s journeys taken, to be shared and built on as you please.

• Gezgin, in Turkish
• (Ayça Cubukçu)
• Koçer/koçber (Kurdish for nomad).
• Çolger (Kurdish for nomad in the case of desert-like landscapes).
• Rewend (a more generic Kurdish word for migrant or nomad).
• Abdal (wandering dervish, especially in the Alevi and Sufi traditions).
• Yörük (descendants of a nomadic Turkic people, the term comes from Turkic for “walker”).
• Konargöçer (modern Turkish for nomad; literally: [the one who] alights-and-emigrates).
• Muhacir (Ottoman Muslims who fled the Balkans amid the Empire’s dissolution, and their descendants).
• (Eray Çayli)
• Putnik in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Yugoslav (and also in Russian and probably a few other Slavic languages).
• (Ivan Gusic)
• Патник in Macedonian; Cestovatel in Czech.
• (Saskia Petrova)
• ModouModou (Modou is a West African version of the name Mohammed) to refer to a typical Senegalese man in the diaspora. Must keep it as a pair, with the name spoken twice.
• (Antonia Dawes)
• `Abir sabīl also has layered connotations in Islamic culture.
• (Aya Nassar)
• Nomad. Itinerant.
• (Juliet Davis)
• Motsamai or Moeti (the latter also meaning visitor) in Setswana.
• (Karabo Kgoleng on behalf of the African Centre for Migration and Society)
• Muhajir (Pakistan)
• Wasafiri (Swahili)