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The state is named after its capital city, Guanajuato City. Guerrero: Spanish "Warrior". Named after Vicente Guerrero, a hero of the Mexican War of Independence and an early president of Mexico. The surname Guerrero, meaning "warrior" in Spanish, is derived from guerra "war", a Germanic loanword related to the English word war. Hidalgo: Spanish
Tooele County, Utah (originates from "tule", a Spanish word of Aztec origin meaning "bulrush") Utah County, Utah (from the Spanish name Yuta, given to the Ute People by early explorers to the area.) Uvalde County, Texas (Named after Juan de Ugalde) Valencia County, New Mexico (Spanish city of Valencia) Val Verde County, Texas (Valverde)
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Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms. The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman). The French terminations -ois / ais serve as both the singular and plural masculine; adding 'e' (-oise / aise) makes them singular feminine; 'es' (-oises / aises) makes them plural feminine.
The longest city name in Argentina is San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca (30 letters). Truth or Consequences is a spa city and the county seat of Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri (22 letters) has the longest name of any incorporated place in the United States.
At the time of Spanish invasion in 1519, the Aztec Empire alone consisted of approximately 450 altepeme. The Spanish recognized and exploited the preexisting political divisions among the various altepeme and the Aztecs, inciting dissident city-states to rebel. No "super-altepetl" identity existed to unite against the Spanish.
The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman). The French terminations -ois / ais serve as both the singular and plural masculine ; adding 'e' ( -oise / aise ) makes them singular feminine; 'es' ( -oises / aises ) makes them plural feminine.