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knee: rodilla < Lat. rotellam ('little wheel') joelho < Lat. genuculum: The learned word rótula ('kneecap' in both Sp. and Port.) is from the same root as Spanish rodilla. Sp. de hinojos 'kneeling' is from the same source as Port. joelho. home: hogar < Lat. focus: Lar < Lat. Lar: Spanish also has lar: both words can also be used to mean ...
The word is derived from "chingar" which means "to fuck." This word has many meanings in the Spanish language, most limited to Mexico: Adjective [15] for damage (e.g. "Este niño se subió a la bicicleta y ahora su rodilla está chingada" – "This kid rode his bike and now his knee is fucked up/fucking damaged.")
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.
The Real Academia Española (Spanish Royal Academy) claims that Paliacate comes from Nahuatl pal ' colour ' and yacatl ' nose '. paria — pariah , outcast from Tamil paraiyan ' pariah ' , literally ' one who plays the drum ' [ b ] , from parai ' drum ' , possibly from parāi ' to speak ' .
The RAE is Spain's official institution for documenting, planning, and standardising the Spanish language. A word form is any of the grammatical variations of a word. The second table is a list of 100 most common lemmas found in a text corpus compiled by Mark Davies and other language researchers at Brigham Young University in the United States.
The navaja is a traditional Spanish folding-blade fighting and utility knife. [1] One of the oldest folding knife patterns still in production, the first true navajas originated in the Andalusian region of southern Spain. [1] In Spain, the term navaja is often used to generally describe all folding-blade knives. [2] [3]
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The knee is a modified hinge joint, a type of synovial joint, which is composed of three functional compartments: the patellofemoral articulation, consisting of the patella, or "kneecap", and the patellar groove on the front of the femur through which it slides; and the medial and lateral tibiofemoral articulations linking the femur, or thigh bone, with the tibia, the main bone of the lower ...