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and used to express an appreciation of an outstanding performance in Spanish. [2] The linguist Joan Coromines in his Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico links olé to the Spanish word for "hello" hola and hala. [5] Hola has also been proposed to have come from Arabic. [4]
Hola (VPN), a web and mobile application; holA, a bacterial gene; Hola Airlines, a former Spanish airline based in Palma de Mallorca, Majorca; Cyclone Hola, a strong tropical cyclone of the Pacific; Hola Mohalla, a Sikh festival; Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors, a not-for-profit, arts service and advocacy organization
Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications in the U.S. as early as the 18 October 1826 edition of the Norwich Courier of Norwich, Connecticut. [1] Another early use was an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee, [2] which was reprinted that same year in The London Literary Gazette. [3]
from Spanish jaquima, "halter." hola Spanish greeting, equivalent to "hello" Hispano From Spanish hispanic. Also came from Latin Hispania, the whole Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal) called by Romans. hombre from Spanish hombre, "man" < medieval homre < latin hominis hoosegow from Spanish juzgado, courthouse, from juzgar < latin iudicare ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...
Spanish: in Argentina and Uruguay the word chau is the most common expression for "goodbye". In Chile , chao is the standard farewell. In Spain , where "adios" (with a religious etymology as "goodbye", the same as Italian "addio" and French "adieu", meaning "to God" in English) is the common expression, people can use chao as an original way of ...