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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
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
The nights are called baile/baile - the word meaning "village" in Gaelic and "dance" in Spanish.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024
Then I remembered that ludus was also a Latin word, meaning “school.”
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
