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.
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"