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  2. List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    Spanish Fork, Utah (its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route ...

  3. La Hourquette d'Ancizan - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the word hourquette is unclear. French Wikipedia speculates the word is derived from a Gascon given name, via the Latin furca meaning 'fork'. [2] The word is very similar to the Spanish noun horqueta 'fork' and French noun fourchette 'fork', both of which have etymological roots in the same Latin word furca.

  4. List of Spanish words of various origins - Wikipedia

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    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. tulipán = tulip, from Persian دلبند dulband Band = To close, To tie.

  5. Fork - Wikipedia

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    From left to right: dessert fork, relish fork, salad fork, dinner fork, cold cuts fork, serving fork, carving fork. In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from Latin: furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to hold them to cut with a ...

  6. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    from Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl xocolatl meaning "hot water" or from a combination of the Mayan word chocol meaning "hot" and the Nahuatl word atl meaning "water." Choctaw from the native name Chahta of unknown meaning but also said to come from Spanish chato (="flattened") because of the tribe's custom of flattening the heads of male infants.

  7. List of Spanish words of Iberian origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Spanish words which are believed to have originated from the ancient Iberian language. Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other languages . Some of these words have alternative etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language .

  8. List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin - Wikipedia

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    This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.

  9. List of Spanish words of uncertain origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Spanish words of uncertain origin. Some of these words existed in Latin and/or Ancient Greek , but are thought by some scholars to ultimately come from some other source. Many of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language .