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Tribal elders suggested Wo'aabi, an Indigenous word meaning "worm."
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
As I wrote in my 2023 book, “The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir,” the very name “Wales” is a Saxon word meaning “Home of the Foreigners.”
From Salon • May 27, 2024
Its name is an Arabic word meaning altruism and affection.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2024
He taught me a Tahitian word, fiu, a kind of hand-flip word meaning “enough,” or “fed up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
In the fields, Japanese women would sing bolehole bushi—holehole is a Hawaiian word meaning “stripping leaves,” and bushi is Japanese for “song.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
