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Where Words Come From From the page: "Orange The name of the fruit was NARANJ in Sanskrit. This language was spoken in ancient India. Indians traded with Arabs, so the word passed into Arabic as NARANJAH. The Spaniards were ruled by north African Arabs who passed the fruit and word... more
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Rated by 2qt on Dec 19, 5:45am
wah
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Rated by johnwatchtower on Jul 17, 1:59pm
a site concerning :The Origin of Words and Names.ethimology, semantics, languages families and geolinguistics areas. for intermediate learners.
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Rated by Darkwarrior331 on May 17 2009, 1:33pm
Cool site! and i didn't found any stumbler who pointed out mistakes, yay!
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Rated by dylweed on May 06 2009, 1:45pm
I love this kind of stuff :)
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Rated by Hepburn on Dec 11 2008, 8:41pm
Finally, I know where the phrase "neck of the woods" comes from! Etymology is so interesting.
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Rated by PoetryInBloom on Dec 09 2008, 2:08pm
ooo fun stuff!
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Rated by okirun on Dec 09 2008, 3:20am
YESSSS, this is what I've been looking forrrrrr 3
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Rated by Sol-Sotha on Dec 08 2008, 2:53pm
I've always been interested in etymology, so I liked this page a lot. However, "yuppie" did not come from nothing, it came from the acronym YUP for Young Urban Professional.
