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Xavier comes from the name of the Jesuit missionary saint Francis Xavier, where Xavier stands for his birthplace of Javier (Xabier in Basque; Xavier in Old Spanish) in the Kingdom of Navarre. The toponym is itself the romanization of the Basque place-name (and surname) etxe berri, meaning 'castle', 'new house' or 'new home'. [2] [page needed] [3]
Mi casa es tu casa (informal) or mi casa es su casa is a Spanish expression of welcome meaning "My house is your house". As a title, these phrases may refer to: "Mi Casa es tu Casa", a project by computer artist Sheldon Brown; Mi casa es tu casa, a 2002 film starring Fanny Gautier "Mi Casa Es Su Casa", a 2007 single by Félicien Taris (with Los ...
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.
The Spanish variant of Xavier, Javier (pronounced HA-vee-air) is derived from the Basque name Exteberria meaning “new house,” according to Behind the Name. Many Javiers go by the nickname Javi ...
Spanish: in Argentina and Uruguay the word chau is the most common expression for "goodbye". In Chile , chao is the standard farewell. In Spain , where "adios" (with a religious etymology as "goodbye", the same as Italian "addio" and French "adieu", meaning "to God" in English) is the common expression, people can use chao as an original way of ...
This birthplace name, in turn, has Basque roots, etymologically originating in the word etxaberri (etxe berri in standard spelling), meaning "castle" or "new house". [2] The original place name went through a Romance phonetic change in Navarro-Aragonese, a Romance language spoken in the neighbouring Romanzado (cf. Leire) from the Early Middle Ages.
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While in other countries this word means "insolence", [13] in Puerto Rico it has an entirely different meaning and is used to describe that something is good, fun, funny, great or beautiful. [14] corillo Friend, or group of friends. [9] dura Normally means “hard”, but in Puerto Rican slang means that someone is really good at what they do. [3]