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If "pilgrim" comes from the Latin peregrinus, "foreigner, wanderer", then the Russian word palomnik comes from the Latin palma, "palm", because pilgrims carried in their hands palm branches in memory of the palm branches with which, at the gates of Jerusa

And the synonymous notion of the kaliki perekhozhie, the wandering "cripples", comes from the Greek "caligae", the name of the leather footwear in which wanderers tramped the roads. The same word gave rise to the nickname of Caligula, who as a child ran about in little