Portuguese-based creole languages meaning "in" and/or "on", which would come from the Portuguese contraction "na" meaning "in the" (feminine singular). The Portuguese word for "creole" is "crioulo", which derives from the verb "criar" ("to raise", "to bring up") and a suffix "-oulo" of debated origin. Originally the word was used to distinguish the members of any ethnic group who were born and raised in the colonies from those who were born in their homeland. In Africa it was often applied to locally born people of (wholly or partly) Portuguese descent, as opposed to those born in Portugal; whereas in Brazil it was also
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