Majority-group category labels for Roma lack meaning within Romani language itself

Evidence

The categories used by others to talk about the Roma do not have anything corresponding in the Romani language (the Roma’s own frame of reference). The French word ‘tsigane’ is not a word in Romani and is not associated with anything precise in Roma’s frame of reference; instead it corresponds to a symbolic representation replete with positive and negative connotations. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 417

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what labels do Roma use for themselves across groups, and how do self-labels differ from the tsigane/nomad exonyms?