Creole peoples were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations (or free men and women of color). They were also referred to as "criollos", a word from the Spanish language meaning "created" and used in the post-French governance period to distinguish the two groups of New Orleans area and down river Creoles. Both mixed race and European Creole groups share many traditions and language, but their socio-economic roots differed in the original period of Louisiana history. Actually, the French word Creole is derived from the Portuguese word "Crioulo", which described Spaniards born in the Americas as opposed to Spain.
Panicker romanising Malayalam without diacritic marks, the name would be "Panikkar". However, Panikker, Panicker, Panickar, Paniker, Panikar, Panniker, and Pannikavannar, and other variants are found. Panicker Panicker (sometimes Panikkar) is an Indian title or last name. The "Dravidian Etymological Dictionary", entry number 3884, considers the word Panikkan as a word of Dravidian etymology, deriving from the Dravidian root word "Pani", meaning service, work etc. Panikkan could mean a person who commands as well as one who serves. The "DED" traces cognates of the word "Panikkan" in twelve Dravidian languages, besides Malayalam. The Portuguese traveller Duarte Barbosa said that "They are the