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The Cuban thaw [1] [2] (Spanish: deshielo cubano, [3] [4] pronounced [desˈʝelo kuˈβano]) was a normalization of Cuba–United States relations from July 2015 to June 2017, ending a 54-year stretch of hostility between the nations.
Benjamin Thaw Sr. (1859–1933), American banker and philanthropist (son of William Thaw Sr., father of William Thaw II) Eugene V. Thaw (1927-2018), American art dealer and collector; Evelyn Nesbit (c. 1884–1967), also known as Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, artists' model and actress (married Harry Kendall Thaw 1905, div. 1915, mother of Russell Thaw)
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 ...
from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Tamil மன்கய் mānkāy ' mango fruit ', from mān ' mango tree ' and kāy ' fruit '. mangosta — mongoose from French mangouste , from Portuguese mangús , from Marathi मंगूस mangūs ' mongoose ' , of Dravidian origin.
Documented Nahuatl words in the Spanish language (mostly as spoken in Mexico and Mesoamerica), also called Nahuatlismos include an extensive list of words that represent (i) animals, (ii) plants, fruit and vegetables, (iii) foods and beverages, and (iv) domestic appliances. Many of these words end with the absolutive suffix "-tl" in Nahuatl.
And as it turns out, the words "frost" and "freeze" have a common root, arguably making defrost and unfreeze synonyms for thaw. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:43, 21 January 2016 (UTC) I agree, if the OP is editing this manuscript, changing defrost to thaw is the best choice, since the first word is ambiguous. Anyone who's ...
January thaw is a term applied to a thaw or rise in temperature in mid-winter found in mid-latitude North America. Sinusoidal estimates of expected temperatures, for northern locales, usually place the lowest temperatures around January 23 and the highest around July 24, and provide fairly accurate estimates of temperature expectations.
In Spanish dialectology, the realization of coronal fricatives is one of the most prominent features distinguishing various dialect regions. The main three realizations are the phonemic distinction between /θ/ and /s/ (distinción), the presence of only alveolar [] (), or, less commonly, the presence of only a denti-alveolar [] that is similar to /θ/ ().