Creole peoples Creole peoples Creole people are ethnic groups which originated during the colonial-era from racial mixing between Europeans and non-European peoples, known as creolisation. These groups are typically descended from White Western European colonial settlers, West African slaves, Haitians and indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Creole peoples vary widely in ethnic background and mixture, and many have since developed distinct ethnic identities. The development of creole languages is attributed to, but independent of, the emergence of creole ethnic identities. The English word "creole" derives from the French "créole", which in turn came from Portuguese "crioulo", a diminutive of
Etymology of cannabis 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 in