It conveys a sense of flow and rhythm. As to a translatory meaning, it doesn’t really have any. It’s pleasing to the eye. If it does have any particular meaning in words, it has probably long since been lost. At one time it might have denoted a particular ancestral bloodline. But it might be impossible to find out whose. That’s why tribal tattoos are going out the door like a sinking ship right now, quickly becoming a tattoo that dates you to a fad that is burning out quickly. And mark my words, ‘quote’ tattoos are going to go out more quickly than that. Letters are not an art form at all. Tribals are. But quote tattoos came out of the prison system, and will return there to stay. Take care.