However, variants do occur: for example, in Fijian, the word for mother is nana, the Mongolian and Turkish word is ana, and in Old Japanese, the word for mother was papa. The modern Japanese word for father, chichi, is from older titi. In Japanese the child's initial mamma is interpreted to mean food.
However, Roland Garros was one of the most renowned former members of the Stade Francais prior to his death ten year earlier when he was killed in aerial combat in 1918, and the land near the Port dâAuteuil was only offered to the French Tennis Federation on the condition that the stadium would be named after him.
Before Table Tennis.. When the game first started it was called by a number of different names. Whif whaf, gossamer, and flim flam were commonly used to describe it. The words, as can be assumed, were derived from the sound that the ball made when hit back and forth on the table. In 1901 though, English manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd registered one of the more popular names, Ping-Pong, as a copyright. He later sold the trademark to the Parker Brothers in the United States.