The English word "cash" originally meant "money box", and later came to have a secondary meaning "money". This secondary usage became the sole meaning in the 18th century. The word "cash" derives from the Middle French caisse ("money box"), which derives from the Old Italian cassa, and...
[24] but it most likely comes from the Berber words amur (n) akush (ⴰⵎⵓⵔ ⵏ ⴰⴽⵓⵛ ), meaning 'Land of God'.[25] The modern Berber name for Marrakesh
Lahore (/l ə ˈ h ɔːr / ; Punjabi: لہور ; pronounced [lɔ̀ːɾᵊ] ; Urdu: لاہور ; pronounced [lɑːˈɦɔːɾ] ( listen ) )is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and is the country's 2nd largest city after Karach...
Delhi (/ˈ d ɛ l i / ; Hindi pronunciation: [ˈdɪlːiː] Dillī; Punjabi pronunciation: [ˈdɪlːiː] Dillī; Urdu pronunciation: [ˈdɛɦliː] Dêhlī),[16] officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of Indi...
The name Brooklyn is derived from the original Dutch town of Breukelen. The oldest mention of the settlement in the Netherlands, is in a charter of 953 of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, namely Broecklede.[12] This is a composition of the two words broeck, meaning bog or marshland and lede...
" or "OK啦" (Okay la), a strong, persuading affirmative, as well as the somewhat tongue-in-cheek explicit yes/no construction "O不OK?" (O bù OK?), "Is it OK or not?" In Russia, OK is used very frequently for any positive meaning. The word in Russian has many morphologies: "...
In 1980, Sweden became the first monarchy to declare equal primogeniture, absolute primogeniture or full cognatic primogeniture, meaning that the eldest child of the monarch, whether female or male, ascends to the throne.[8] Other nations have since adopted this practice: Netherlands in 1983, Nor...
The motto "Semper Eadem" was the motto of Queen Elizabeth I, who granted a royal charter to the city. It means "always the same" but with positive overtones meaning unchanging, reliable or dependable, and united. The crest on top of the arms is a white or silver legless wyvern with red...
both forms were current in the Tudor period. Caerdyf has its origins in post-Roman Brythonic words meaning "the fort of the Taff". The fort probably refers to that established by the Romans. Caer is Welsh for fort and -dyf is in effect a form of Taf (Taff), the river which flows ...