Portuguese-based creole languages used to distinguish locally born black people of African descent from those who had been brought from Africa as slaves. In time, however, this generic sense was lost, and the word "crioulo" or its derivatives (like "Creole" and its equivalents in other languages) became the name of several specific Upper Guinean communities and their languages: the Guinean people and their Kriol language, Cape Verdean people and their Kriolu language, all of which still today have very vigorous use, suppressing the importance of official standard Portuguese. The oldest Portuguese-based creole are the so-called "crioulos" of Upper Guinea, born around the Portuguese
Etymology of cannabis following: Etymology of cannabis The plant name Cannabis is from Greek ('), via Latin ', originally a Scythian or Thracian word, also loaned into Persian as '. English "hemp" (Old English ') may be an early loan (predating Grimm's Law) from the same Scythian source. The "Oxford English Dictionary" records the earliest usages of "cannabis" meaning the plant "common hemp, "Cannabis sativa"" in 1548 and meaning parts of the plant "smoked, chewed, or drunk for their intoxicating or hallucinogenic properties" in 1848. The "OED" traces the etymology to the New Latin botanical term "cannabis" – proposed in 1728 and standardized