Québécois (word) la langue française mentions only a territorial meaning for "Québécois". Newspaper editor Lysiane Gagnon has referred to an ethnic sense of the word "Québécois" in both English and French. French expressions employing "Québécois" often appear in both French and English. Québécois (word) Québécois (pronounced ; feminine: Québécoise (pronounced ), ' (fem.: '), or (fem.: ) is a word used primarily to refer to a native or inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec, the majority of whom speak French as a mother tongue. It can refer to French spoken in Quebec. It may also be used, with an upper- or
Baka (Japanese word) that "baka" derives from a Sanskrit word meaning "fool". According to the Japanese linguist and lexicographer Shinmura Izuru, the Edo-period scholar Amano Sadakage 天野信景 (1663–1733) originally suggested that Japanese Buddhist priests coined the word "baka" "fool" from Sanskrit. Modern reference works give two possible Sanskrit sources for the word, "moha" (transcribed 慕何) "foolish" and "mahallaka" (摩訶羅) "stupid". Sanskrit "moha" मोह means "bewilderment, loss of consciousness, delusion, folly" and comes from the root "muh" "bewildered, perplexed, confused". Sanskrit "mahallaka" means "senile, feeble minded, stupid, decrepit" and comes from "mūrkha" मोह "dull, stupid, foolish, inexperienced; fool". Other proposed etymologies for "baka" are