enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Fjord horse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjord_horse

    The Fjord is strong enough for heavy work, such as ploughing fields or hauling wood, yet light and agile enough to be a good riding and driving horse. It is also sure-footed in the mountains. It is common at Norwegian riding and therapeutic schools , as its generally mild temperament and small size make it suitable for children and disabled ...

  3. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country-name...

    The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet-part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of...

    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.

  5. List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_words_of...

    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.

  6. List of Old Norse exonyms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Old_Norse_exonyms

    From skrækja, meaning "bawl, shout, or yell" [29] or from skrá, meaning "dried skin", in reference to the animal pelts worn by the Inuit. [29] The name the Norse Greenlanders gave the previous inhabitants of North America and Greenland. Skuggifjord Hudson Strait Straumfjörð "Current-fjord", "Stream-fjord" or "Tide-fjord". A fjord in Vinland.

  7. List of etymologies of administrative divisions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_etymologies_of...

    Another theory suggests that the Chonos culture used the word to mean "going more to the interior", in reference to the Fjord of Aisén that stretches east from the Moraleda strait. Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region (Spanish XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena ): named in honour of Ferdinand Magellan , the Strait of ...

  8. Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a ...

    www.aol.com/news/scientists-traced-origin-modern...

    “In the past, you had many different lineages of horses,” said Pablo Librado, an evolutionary biologist at the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona and co-author of the new study.

  9. Sorraia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorraia

    Sorraia horses have bi-colored manes and tails with lighter colored hairs that fringe the outside of the longer growing black hair. [4] This is a characteristic shared with other predominantly dun-colored breeds, such as the Fjord horse. [7] Purebred Sorraia occasionally have white markings, although they are rare and undesired by the breed's ...