'ca nada = Portugese, Here, nothing
canyon, dale, dell, gully, ravine, or a mountain valley (narrow one)
2007-03-01 06:06:57
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answered by Confused 6
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I assume you are asking where the name of Canada came from. According to dictionary.com:
Word History: Linguistically, mountains can be made out of molehills, so to speak: words denoting a small thing can, over time, come to denote something much larger. This is the case with Canada, now the name of the second-largest country in the world but having a much humbler origin. Apparently its history starts with the word kanata, which in Huron (an Iroquoian language of eastern Canada) meant "village." Jacques Cartier, the early French explorer, picked up the word and used it to refer to the land around his settlement, now part of Quebec City. By the 18th century it referred to all of New France, which extended from the St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes and down into what is now the American Midwest. In 1759, the British conquered New France and used the name Quebec for the colony north of the St. Lawrence River, and Canada for the rest of the territory. Eventually, as the territory increased in size and the present arrangement of the provinces developed, Canada applied to all the land north of the United States and east of Alaska.
2007-03-01 06:36:16
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answered by Gary B 5
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There cant be a synonym for a country, unless you use the official title of it.
synonyms are two word that mean the same thing.
2007-03-01 06:27:08
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answered by YouCannotKnowUnlessUAsk 6
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The older term is "British North America" that is as close to a synonym as you can get.
2007-03-04 09:29:15
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answered by CanProf 7
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What do you mean? Canada is one of those proper nouns that DON'T have a synonym.
2007-03-01 06:07:07
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answered by Anonymous
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Community.
2007-03-01 06:03:13
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answered by Anonymous
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heaven?
2007-03-01 06:00:40
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answered by Anonymous
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