"the term ""Kahuna"" to refer to Anglican priests and ""Kahunapule"" to refer to both lay and ordained Anglican ministers. Craft kahuna were never prohibited; however, during the decline of native Hawaiian culture many died out and did not pass on their wisdom to new students. As an example, when the ""Hōkūle‘a"" was built to be sailed to the South Pacific to prove the voyaging capabilities of the ancient Hawaiians, master navigator Mau Piailug from Satawal was brought to Hawaii to teach the Hawaiians navigation. It is often said that the missionaries came to Hawaii in 1820 and made kahuna practices"
"""Patna""); ""Pak t'ou"" (白土, ""bai tu"" or ""Malwa""); Persian, ""Kem fa t'ou"" (金花土, ""jinhua tu"") and the ""smaller ""kong pan"""", which was of a ""dearer sort"", i.e. more expensive. A description of the cargo aboard at Lintin in July 1833 distinguished between ""new"" and ""old"" Patna, ""new"" and ""old"" Benares, and Malwa; the accounting also specifies the number of chests of each type, and the price per chest. The ""chests"" contained small balls of opium that had originated in the Indian provinces of Bengal and Madras. In 1797 the EIC further tightened its grip on the opium trade by enforcing"
"known as ""kahuna"", a term commonly understood to mean ""priest"". The various types of ""kahuna"" passed on knowledge of their profession, be it in ""genealogies, or ""mele"", or herb medicine, or canoe building, or land boundaries,"" etc. by involving and instructing apprentices in their work. More formal schools existed for the study of ""hula"", and likely for the study of higher levels of sacred knowledge. The ""kahuna"" took the apprentice into his household as a member of the family, although often ""the tutor was a relative"". During a religious ""graduation"" ceremony, ""the teacher consecrated the pupil, who thereafter was one"
"Antiquity. Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni and Assyrian Empires converged. Much of modern knowledge about Canaan stems from archaeological excavation in this area at sites such as Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, and Gezer. The English term ""Canaan"" (pronounced since c. 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) comes from the Hebrew (""knʿn""), via Greek ""Khanaan"" and Latin '. It appears as 𒆳𒆠𒈾𒄴𒈾 (""ki-na-ah-na"") in the Amarna letters (14th century BC), and ' is found on coins from"
"And the earliest record of Haudenosaunee speakers explicitly mentioning or reciting the ""kaswentha"" tradition before Anglo-American and French colonial audiences dates to more than 30 years before this, in 1656 (43 years after the putative origin of the treaty in 1613). While the evidence that the Haudenosaunee and the Dutch entered into ""some"" kind of political or economic agreement in the early seventeenth century is overwhelming, some historians have found reasons to be cautious about assuming the nature of that agreement was formal and treaty-like. The Dutch, for example, may not have recognized their agreement with the Haudenosaunee as a"
"along the front of the house, but even round the posts of the home-made bedstead and over the wall of the small room devoted to our use. Vanuapaka in Kabadi language literally means ""big village"", in some of the old texts and writings in the 1880s by anthropologists, linguists and historians, Vanuapaka was writian and ""Hanuabada"". In the recent times, the village was arranged in clans and given the clan name 'Ovia Kubuna'. 'Ovia Kubuna' literary means 'Obia or Ovia - chief; and Kubunu or Kubuna - Offspring; line or generation of chief. Historian Dr. Strong noted that the Kabadi's"
"(gardeners, errand boys). After the German immigrants came to a certain prosperity, they posted job advertisements for local forces, which often started with the German verb ""suche"" in a large-size font. In Mexico, ""kermes"", from the German word ""Kirmes"" (funfair, kermesse), is used for a charitable street party. The dominant lingua franca in the African Great Lakes region, Swahili, has borrowed many words from Arabic and English. Borrowed from the German ""Schule"", however, is the word ""shule"" for school. Even the Kreol Tok Pisin in the former German colony Papua-New Guinea has words borrowed from German language. These include ""balaistift"""
"1607 and 1611 by John Smith (as ""opassom"") and William Strachey (as ""aposoum""). Both men encountered the language at the British settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, which Smith helped to found and where Strachey later served as its first secretary. Strachey's notes describe the opossum as a ""beast in bigness of a pig and in taste alike,"" while Smith recorded it ""hath an head like a swine ... tail like a rat ... of the bigness of a cat."" The Powhatan word ultimately derives from a Proto-Algonquian word (""*wa·p-aʔθemwa"") meaning ""white dog or dog-like beast."" The opossum is also commonly known"
"than Hindi because Persian was the official language of the Mughal courts. e.g., ""pyjamas"", ""bungalow"", ""verandah"", ""jungle"", ""curry"", ""shampoo"", ""khaki"". German words relating to World War I and World War II found their way into the English language, words such as ""Blitzkrieg"", ""Führer"" and ""Lebensraum""; food terms, such as ""bratwurst"", ""hamburger"" and ""frankfurter""; words related to psychology and philosophy, such a ""gestalt"", ""Übermensch"", ""zeitgeist"" and ""realpolitik"". From German origin are also: ""wanderlust"", ""schadenfreude"", ""kaputt"", ""kindergarten"", ""autobahn"", ""rucksack"". Words of Old Norse origin have entered English primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and"
"of Lebanon from Hamath to the entering of Egypt, he and his sons until this day. And for this reason that land is named Canaan.<br>—Jubilees 10:29-34. The English term ""Canaan"" (pronounced since c. AD 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) comes from the Hebrew (""knʿn""), via Greek ""Khanaan"" and Latin . It appears as in the Amarna letters (14th century BC), and is found on coins from Phoenicia in the last half of the 1st millennium. It first occurs in Greek in the writings of Hecataeus as ""Khna""(Χνᾶ). Scholars connect the name ""Canaan"" with , ""Kana'an"", the general Northwest"
"to cure flatulence. The modern Hindustani words descending directly from the Sanskrit name are ""baingan"" and ""began"". The Indic word ""vātiṅ-gaṇa"" was then borrowed into Persian as ""bādingān"". Persian ""bādingān"" was borrowed in turn into Arabic as ""bāḏinjān"" (or, with the definite article, ""al-bāḏinjān""). From Arabic, the word was borrowed into European languages. In al-Andalus, the Arabic word ""(al-)bāḏinjān"" was borrowed into the Romance languages in forms beginning with ""b""- or, with the definite article included, ""alb""-: The Spanish word ""alberengena"" was then borrowed into French, giving ""aubergine"" (along with French dialectal forms like ""albergine"", ""albergaine"", ""albergame"", and ""belingèle""). The"
"The German language also influenced Kashubian and other Slavic languages, for example ""kajuta"" from German ""Kajüte"" for (ship) cabin, ""bùrméster"" from German ""Bürgermeister"" for mayor or ""hańdel"" from German ""Handel"" for trade"". In Kashubian ""szlafrok"" from German ""Schlafrock"" is a dressing-gown. A Kashubian craftsman uses a ""szruwa"" (screw, from German ""Schraube""). In Kirundi, the language of the African Great Lakes country Burundi, the word for German people (the former colonial rulers) is ""dagi"". That is derived from the German salutation ""Tag"", short for ""Guten Tag"" (literally ""[I wish you a] good day""). In order to remove the last relics of"
"to be called ""Samdech Ta"" or ""Samdech Ta-tuot"", which translates as ""Grandfather"" and ""Great-grandfather"", respectively, in English. When Sihanouk died in October 2012, he was bestowed by his son Sihamoni with the posthumous title of ""Preah Karuna Preah Norodom Sihanouk Preah Borom Ratanakkot"" (, which literally translates as ""The King who lies in the Diamond Urn"" in English. Sihanouk's name is derived from two Sanskrit words ""Siha"" and ""Hanu"", which translates as ""Lion"" and ""Jaws"", respectively, in English. He was fluent in Khmer, French, and English, and also learned Greek and Latin in high school. In his high school days,"
"word (cf. Cree ""wuchak"", ""otchock"", Ojibwa ""ojiig"") borrowed by fur traders. Other American Indian names for the fisher are Chipewyan ""thacho"" and Carrier ""chunihcho"", both meaning ""big marten"", and Wabanaki ""uskool"". The Latin specific name ""pennanti"" honors Thomas Pennant, who described the fisher in 1771. Buffon had first described the creature in 1765, calling it a ""pekan"". Pennant examined the same specimen, but called it a fisher, unaware of Buffon's earlier description. Other 18th-century scientists gave it similar names, such as Schreber, who named it ""Mustela canadensis"", and Boddaert, who named it ""Mustela melanorhyncha"". The fisher was eventually placed in"
"English, French, and other languages. The term, originally spelled variously as ""marihuana"", ""mariguana"", etc., originated in Mexican Spanish. According to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", the term may come from the Nahuatl ""mallihuan"", meaning ""prisoner"". Author Martin Booth notes that this etymology was popularized by Harry J. Anslinger in the 1930s, during his campaigns against the drug. However, linguist Jason D. Haugen finds no semantic basis for a connection to ""mallihuan"", suggesting that the phonetic similarity may be ""a case of accidental homophony"". Cannabis is not known to have been present in the Americas before Spanish contact, making an indigenous word"
"a variation of the Cham word ""daknan"" (lit. ""the large water""); Sakaya (aka Văn Món), another Champa researcher, claims a connection with the Raglai word ""danang"", meaning ""river source"". Another name given to Da Nang was ""Cửa Hàn"" (lit. ""mouth of the Han <nowiki>[river]</nowiki>""). The name used by the French, ""Tourane"", is said to derive from this name, by way of a rough transliteration. Notably, this name (spelled ""Cua han"") appears on maps of the area drafted by Alexandre de Rhodes in 1650. The name ""Kean"" (cf. ""Kẻ Hàn"", roughly ""Han market"") was another name purportedly used during the 17th"
"to Gabadi, and was reinforced and used by motuan interpreters who accompanied the colonial administrators in the 1600s. It is true that some of the words used today were acquired words and terms from the Motu language, from Motuan interpreters and Motuan-trained missionaries. An anthropologist Dr. W Mesh Strong made an account of Kabadi speaking group in his book page 155–160, called 'Notes on the Language of Kabadi' 1912. The historical name of Pinu is 'Kabadi' or 'Kabatsi'. Also, the village 'Vanuabaka' or Ma'i vanua was the largest tribe then and it belonged to the paramount chiefs Aro Ure and"
"1895. He identified the Charon annulipes an indigenous species of scorpion endemic to Queensland. Lauterer also wrote on Aboriginal languages, and published on English loan-words into a dialect of Jagera, which he called ""yerongpan."" Many words are taken from the English in a mutilated form, e.g.,""buredn,"" bread; ""tseruse,"" trousers; ""whymerigan,""(white Mary), an English lady; ""bullae,"" ox; ""goondool"" (gondola, a small boat; ""deamer,""steamer. Somer words have only been invented when the white man came into contact with aboriginals, ""e-g.,"" the horse ""yereman"" is named after the kangaroo,""guruman""; the sheep is called monkey. The names of native weapons, as adopted by the"
"and northern Africa. Coffee then spread to the Balkans, Italy and to the rest of Europe, to South East Asia and then to America, despite bans imposed during the 15th century by religious leaders in Mecca and Cairo, and later by the Catholic Church. The word ""coffee"" entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch ""koffie"", borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish ""kahve"", in turn borrowed from the Arabic ""qahwah"" (). The Arabic word ""qahwah"" originally referred to a type of wine, whose etymology is given by Arab lexicographers as deriving from the verb ""qahā"" (, ""to lack hunger"") in"
"and has become one of them. The title ""Kabloona"" is a transcription of the Inuktitut word nowadays spelled ""qallunaaq"" (""qablunaaq"" in Inuinnaqtun). It is a term originally used to describe white Europeans - a reference to their ""qalluit"", the bushy eyebrows that the Inuit saw as the distinctive feature of Europeans. Nowadays, its use is a bit vaguer. It can mean Anglo-Canadian in contrast to other ethnolinguistic groups like the ""uiviimiut"" - French Canadians. Alternately, it is used to describe non-Inuit Canadian society, or even occidental society as a whole. In the 1940s, however, Inuit made fewer of those distinctions,"
"Makonde Plateau, along the border between Mozambique and Tanganyika (the mainland part of modern-day Tanzania). According to the initial 1955 report about the epidemiology of the disease, the term 'chikungunya' is derived from the Makonde root verb ""kungunyala"", meaning to dry up or become contorted. In concurrent research, Robinson glossed the Makonde term more specifically as ""that which bends up"". Subsequent authors apparently overlooked the references to the Makonde language and assumed the term to have been derived from Swahili, the ""lingua franca"" of the region. The erroneous attribution to Swahili has been repeated in numerous print sources. Many erroneous"
"Long knives Long knives or big knives was a term used by the Iroquois, and later by the Mingo and other Natives of the Ohio Country to designate British colonists of Virginia, in contradistinction to those of New York and Pennsylvania. It is a literal translation of the treaty name that the Iroquois first bestowed on Virginia Governor Lord Howard in 1684, ""Assarigoe"" (variously spelled ""Assaregoa, Assaragoa, Asharigoua""), meaning ""cutlass"" in Onondaga. This word was chosen as a pun on Howard's name, which sounds like Dutch ""hower"" meaning ""cutlass"" (similar to the Iroquois' choice of the name ""Onas"", or ""quill"
"to Australia by the Swedish geographer and cartographer Daniel Djurberg in 1776. Djurberg adapted the name from ""Olhemaroa"", a Maori word found in Hawkesworth's edition of Captain James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks' journals which is thought to have been a misunderstood translation the Maori were actually referring to ""Grand Terre"", the largest island of New Caledonia. Djurberg believed the name meant something like ""big red land"", whereas modern linguists believe it meant ""long hand"" echoing the geography of Grand Terre. The spurious name continued to be reproduced on certain European maps, particularly some Austrian, Czech, German and Swedish maps,"
"major family. Because of its historical development, it is closely related to other Portuguese- and Malay-influenced creoles of Southeast Asia, notably the Kristang language of Malacca and the extinct Portuguese-influenced creoles of Indonesia and Flores, as well as to the Indo-Portuguese creoles of Sri Lanka and India. Most of the Macanese lexicon derives from Malay, through various Portuguese-influenced creoles (""papiás"") like the Kristang of Malacca and the creole spoken in the Indonesian island of Flores. Words of Malay origin include ""sapeca"" (""coin"") and ""copo-copo"" (""butterfly""). Many words also came from Sinhalese, through the Indo-Portuguese creoles of the Kaffir and Portuguese"
"""wunna"" or ""una"" - West African Pidgin (meaning ""you people"", a word that comes from the Igbo word ""unu"" or ""wunna"" also meaning ""you people"") display some of the interesting similarities between the English pidgins and creoles of West Africa and the English pidgins and creoles of the West Indies, as does the presence of words and phrases that are identical in the languages on both sides of the Atlantic, such as ""Me a go tell dem"" (I'm going to tell them) and ""make we"" (let us). Use of the word ""deh"" or ""dey"" is found in both Caribbean Creole"
"the great auk of the Northern Hemisphere, and named them after this bird, although they are not closely related. The etymology of the word ""penguin"" is still debated. The English word is not apparently of French, Breton or Spanish origin (the latter two are attributed to the French word ""pingouin"" ""auk""), but first appears in English or Dutch. Some dictionaries suggest a derivation from Welsh ""pen"", ""head"" and ""gwyn"", ""white"", including the Oxford English Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, the Century Dictionary and Merriam-Webster, on the basis that the name was originally applied to the great auk, either because it"
"a sharp distinction between the ""archaic"" Macanese, spoken until the early 19th century, and the ""modern"" form that was strongly influenced by Cantonese. The modern version arose in the late 19th century, when Macanese men began marrying Chinese women from Macau and its hinterland in the Pearl River delta. The British occupation of Hong Kong from the mid-19th century also added many English words to the lexicon. Over its history the language also acquired elements from several other Indian tongues and a string of other European and Asian languages. These varied influences made Macanese a unique ""cocktail"" of European and"
"noble savage. The French often refer to Chingachgook as """"Le Gros Serpent"","" the Great Snake, because he understands the winding ways of men's nature and he can strike a sudden, deadly blow. The name is derived from the Lenape language, which is closely related to the Mohican language. In Lenape, ""xinkw-"" means 'big' and ""xkuk"" means 'snake'. ""Chingachgook"" is derived from Lenape ""xinkwi xkuk"", 'big snake', pronounced . The digraph in the spelling used by John Heckewelder, the source for the name, and the letter in modern Lenape spelling both represent the voiceless velar fricative sound (as in ""Bach"") and"
"It ceased to be spoken on an everyday basis in the 19th century, but, in a process that began in the 1990s, is being reclaimed and re-introduced. R. M. W. Dixon classifies Kaurna as a dialect of the Kadli language, along with Nantuwara, Ngadjuri, Narangka, and Nukunu. Luise Hercus (1992) classifies Kaurna, along with Narungga, Nukunu and Ngadjuri, in the Meru subgroup of the larger group of Thura-Yura languages (which includes Yura Ngawarla or Adnyamathanha) The name ""Kaurna"" was not widely used until popularised by South Australian Museum Ethnographer Norman B. Tindale in the 1920s. The term 'Kaurna' was first"
"katalonan and the dambana, known also as ""lambana"" in the Old Tagalog language. The ancient Batangueños were influenced by India as shown in the origin of most languages from Sanskrit and certain ancient potteries. A Buddhist image was reproduced in mould on a clay medallion in bas-relief from the municipality of Calatagan. According to experts, the image in the pot strongly resembles the iconographic portrayal of Buddha in Siam, India, and Nepal. The pot shows Buddha Amithaba in the tribhanga pose inside an oval nimbus. Scholars also noted that there is a strong Mahayanic orientation in the image, since the"
"Arachosia as the Yona and Bactria as the Parama Yona. The terms ""Yona"", ""Yonaka"" or ""Yavana"" literally referred to the Greeks, however ""mlechas"" was also used probably due to their barbaric behaviour as invaders. Indian languages did not base a distinction on religion early on but after the arrival of Islam to the subcontinent, the term Yavana was used along with Turuka, Turuska, Tajik, and Arab more than Mussalaman or Muslim for invaders professing Islam as their religion. The Chams of Champa referred to Đại Việt as ""Yavana"". The Khmer word ""Yuon"" (yuôn) យួន /yuən/ is an ethnic slur for"
"found in Mozambique; and Nambya and Kalanga in Botswana and Western Zimbabwe. Shona speakers most likely moved into present-day Zimbabwe from the Mapungubwe and K2 communities in Limpopo, South Africa, before the influx of European, primarily British, colonizers. A common misconception is that the speakers of the Karanga dialect were absorbed into the Ndebele culture and language turning them into Kalanga. The Kalanga language is widely spoken in Botswana where the Ndebele were never present. The Kalanga language is thought to have been the language used by the Mapungubweans. If this is accurate it follows that the Karanga dialect of"
"a Malayali servant of Coomaraswamy's saw a large mongoose in the garden and shouted 'Raja kiriya' (meaning 'large mongoose') and the name stuck. The house was later purchased by Anagarika Dharmapala. The Hewavitharana Textile Training School was built within the grounds and later Hewavitharana Maha Vidyalaya. The house and the truncated lands were later acquired by the Obeyesekere family and it is generally known as the 'Obeyesekere Walauwa'. The area developed because of plumbago, which was shipped up the canal network from Ingiriya in the Kalutara district for purification at the Welikada graphite works. The area around the Ethul Kotte"