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
Cholent "chalant" (present participle of "chalt", from the verb "chaloir", "to warm"). One widely quoted folk etymology, relying on the French pronunciation of cholent or the Central and Western European variants "shalent" or "shalet", derives the word from French "chaud" ("hot") and "lent" ("slow"). Another folk etymology derives cholent (or sholen) from the Hebrew "she’lan", which means "that rested [overnight]". This refers to the old-time cooking tradition of Jewish families placing their individual pots of cholent into the town baker's ovens that always stayed hot and slow-cooked the food overnight. Yet another etymology is Old French "chaudes lentes", "hot lentils". "Hamin"