Portuguese language in Africa the various Portuguese creoles that have developed there. These creole languages co-exist with Portuguese and, in the countries where they are spoken, form a continuum with the lexifying language. In Cape Verde, refers to a variety of Cape Verdean Creole which takes on various features of Portuguese and is a result of processes of decreolization in the archipelago. In São Tome e Principe, Santomense Portuguese is a variety of Portuguese strongly influenced by Forro in syntax and vocabulary. Since the lexicons of those languages are derived from Portuguese, even creole-speakers who do not speak Portuguese have a passive knowledge of
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