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  2. List of Spanish words of various origins - Wikipedia

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    sah = shah شاه shāh, from Old Persian 𐏋 χšāyaþiya (="king"), from an Old Persian verb meaning "to rule" Teherán = Tehran (تهران Tehrân, Iranian capital), from Persian words "Tah" meaning "end or bottom" and "Rân" meaning "[mountain] slope"—literally, bottom of the mountain slope.

  3. Family tree - Wikipedia

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    Family tree showing the relationship of each person to the orange person, including cousins and gene share. A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms.

  4. List of common Spanish surnames - Wikipedia

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    Herrera – 451,226 – From the Latin word ferrāria, meaning either "Iron Mine" or "Iron Works". Medina – 431,518 – From the Arabic word madina, meaning city. Vargas – 427,854 – From Spanish and Portuguese, from various places called Vargas, meaning variously "thatched hut", "steep slope", or "fenced pastureland which becomes ...

  5. Spanish naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Spanish naming customs include the orthographic option of conjoining the surnames with the conjunction particle y, or e before a name starting with 'I', 'Hi' or 'Y', (both meaning "and") (e.g., José Ortega y Gasset, Tomás Portillo y Blanco, or Eduardo Dato e Iradier), following an antiquated aristocratic usage.

  6. Garza (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Garza is a Galician and Basque surname and the Spanish word for the heron.Garza has also become a part of many placenames.. House of Garza. Garza was the surname of many Sephardic Jews that settled in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico and the name is still found in many people from that Mexican state.

  7. Martínez (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Martínez is the most common surname in the Spanish regions of Navarre, La Rioja, Cuenca and Murcia. There are also variations such as San Martin and Martín (with an accent on the "i"). It originated as a patronymic surname, meaning "son of Martín" (English: Martin).

  8. Salazar (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Salazar is a surname meaning old farmhouse (from Basque Sarasaitzu [old], which then evolved to "Sarasaz," and then to the modern, Castillian form "Salazar"). [1] The name originates from the valley of the same name: Salazar Valley, in Navarra, Spain. The surname started appearing during the early Middle Ages.

  9. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...