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  2. Boars in heraldry - Wikipedia

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    The O’Hanlon family coat of arms features a boar and was used as the Standard Bearer for Orior (present day Ulster). Some Irish Keating families have been granted arms containing a boar going through a holly bush to symbolize toughness and courage [citation needed]. In Scotland, a boar's head is the crest of Clan Campbell and Clan Innes.

  3. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    Named for the Comahue reion, whose name means 'place of abundance', or perhaps 'where the water hurt', and Greek therium, meaning "beast". [citation needed] Conepatus chinga (Hog-nosed skunk) skunk: Nahuatl and Mapudungun: The genus name is most likely from conepatl, the Nahuatl name of the animal

  4. List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages.Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. . Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang, have become widely used in other varieties of English, and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond En

  5. Sæhrímnir - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of the Old Norse name Sæhrímnir is problematic; in contradiction to the Gylfaginning (and, depending upon translator, Grímnismál) description of the animal as a boar, Sæhrímnir is, in modern scholarship, commonly proposed to mean "sooty sea-beast" or "sooty sea-animal" (which may be connected to Old Norse seyðir, meaning 'cooking ditch'). [1]

  6. What's My Spirit Animal, According to the Zodiac? - AOL

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    Knowing your spirit animal and the symbols and meanings they hold is a magical doorway that transcends all dimensions. As we connect to our spirit animal, we connect to nature and all its elements ...

  7. Talk : List of ethnic slurs/removed entries - Wikipedia

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    The word is a Guaraní word meaning "pig-skin" that originated during the War of the Triple Alliance between Paraguay and Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, in which Argentine soldiers wore pig-skin coats. The term has lost much of its derogatory connotation and is now used fairly regularly in place of the word "Argentine." Kwai Jai (鬼仔)

  8. Babi ngepet - Wikipedia

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    Pesugihan is derived from the Javanese word sugih meaning "rich". It is a kind of magic to help people become rich instantly, but in exchange they must sacrifice something. In this case they must sacrifice their humanity; allowing themselves to be transformed into a boar for a period of time, or allowing themselves to be possessed by a boar demon.

  9. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    From Old Montagnais aiachkimeou ([aːjast͡ʃimeːw]; modern ayassimēw), meaning "snowshoe-netter" (many times incorrectly claimed to be from an Ojibwe word meaning "eaters of raw [meat]"), and originally used to refer to the Mikmaq. [16] [17] Hickory (definition) From Powhatan <pocohiquara>, "milky drink made with hickory nuts". [18] [19 ...