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  2. Che (interjection) - Wikipedia

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    Signature used by Ernesto Guevara from 1960 until his death in 1967. His frequent use of the word "che" earned him this nickname. Che (/ tʃ eɪ /; Spanish:; Portuguese: tchê; Valencian: xe) is an interjection commonly used in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil (São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul) and Spain (), signifying "hey!", "fellow", "guy". [1]

  3. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    Some of the words can be traced to specific languages, but others have disputed or uncertain origins. Words of disputed or less certain origin are in the "Dravidian languages" list. Where lexicographers generally agree on a source language, the words are listed by language.

  4. Chè - Wikipedia

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    Chè (Vietnamese pronunciation: [tɕɛ̀]~[cɛ̀]) is any traditional Vietnamese sweet beverage, dessert soup or stew, [1] [2] or pudding. Chè includes a wide variety of distinct soups or puddings. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] Varieties of Chè can be made with mung beans , black-eyed peas , kidney beans , tapioca , [ 3 ] jelly (clear or grass), [ 3 ] fruit ...

  5. List of Latin verbs with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin spelling and pronunciation. In some Latin verbs, a preposition caused a vowel change in the root of the verb. For example, "capiō" prefixed with "in" becomes "incipio".

  6. Etymology of tea - Wikipedia

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    The different words for tea fall into two main groups: "te-derived" and "cha-derived" (Cantonese and Mandarin). [2]Most notably through the Silk Road; [25] global regions with a history of land trade with central regions of Imperial China (such as North Asia, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East) pronounce it along the lines of 'cha', whilst most global maritime regions ...

  7. Ch (digraph) - Wikipedia

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    In Interlingua, ch is pronounced /ʃ/ in words of French origin (e.g. 'chef' = /ʃef/ meaning "chief" or "chef"), /k/ in words of Greek and Italian origin (e.g. "choro" = /koro/ meaning "chorus"), and more rarely /t͡ʃ/ in words of English or Spanish origin (e.g. "cochi" /kot͡ʃi/ meaning "car" or "coach"). Ch may be pronounced either /t͡ʃ ...

  8. Che - Wikipedia

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    Che, a 2008 film directed by Steven Soderbergh starring Benicio del Toro; Che, a 2014 Persian film; Ché (band), American stoner rock band; Che, the narrator in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita; Che, from the television show The O.C. Che, the rebranded name of Russian federal television channel Peretz

  9. Etymology - Wikipedia

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    English place names such as Winchester, Gloucester, Tadcaster share different forms of a suffix that originated as the Latin castrum ' fort '. Reflex is the name given to a descendant word in a daughter language, descended from an earlier language. For example, Modern English heat is the reflex of the Old English hǣtu. Rarely, this word is ...