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Arizona Either from árida zona, meaning "Arid Zone", or from a Spanish word of Basque origin meaning "The Good Oak" California (from the name of a fictional island country in Las sergas de Esplandián, a popular Spanish chivalric romance by Garci Rodríguez de Mon talvo) Colorado (meaning "red [colored]", "ruddy" or "colored" in masculine form.
Old French faierie (Early Modern English faerie) referred to an illusion or enchantment, the land of the faes. Modern English (by the 17th century) fairy transferred the name of the realm of the fays to its inhabitants, [2] e.g., the expression fairie knight in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene refers to a "supernatural knight" or a "knight of ...
New Mexico's original state constitution of 1911 required all laws be published in both English and Spanish for twenty years after ratification; [169] this requirement was renewed in 1931 and 1943, [170] with some sources stating the state was officially bilingual until 1953. [171]
Twenty other state names derive from European languages: seven come from Latin (mostly from Latinized forms of English personal names, one of those coming from Welsh), five from English, five from Spanish, and three from French (one of those via English). The source language/language family of the remaining five states is disputed or unclear ...
Sometimes, however, the place names were changed by new settlers to match pronunciation habits without reference to the original meaning. For example, the Old English name Scipeton ("sheep farm"), which would normally become *Shipton in modern English, instead was altered to Skipton, since Old English sc (pronounced 'sh') was usually cognate ...
Oct. 17—Families can explore a smorgasbord of traditions at "Fiesta of Cultures: All Cultures of New Mexico" at the Coronado Historic Site in Bernalillo on Saturday, Oct. 19. The event will ...
>Non-Spanish in origin: A good example of this is Eldorado, Illinois, where it comes from two Anglo last names being run together. I would like to see a source on this, because El dorado literally means 'the golden' in Spanish, and its related to 'the golden [city]', which is a mythical city that the Spanish conquistadoress supposedly found in ...
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