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The reason is obscure but may come from the gypsy word tano or tawno meaning ` little, 'as it was a small coin compared with others then in circulation.
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Swahili · Rwanda: Miaka kumi na tano baada ya mauaji ya Kimbari
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: Fifteen years after the genocide 2009
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In fact the usage has now lost its precision, and branched out into obsessive-ness in general notably tano-rexia
The Sensible Season Newmania 2008
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He was pretty well potty trained by then, and my next door neighbor (also a teacher) was starting to train him to “Nipe tano” (Give me five).
$3 Puppy Liv 2009
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He was pretty well potty trained by then, and my next door neighbor (also a teacher) was starting to train him to “Nipe tano” (Give me five).
Archive 2009-03-01 Liv 2009
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Ku endla tano, President, swi nga nyika nseketelo wa kahle eka leswi u nga swi vula eka Nkanelo wa wena wa tiko, leswaku lembe leri ku ta humelerisiwa nawu wa Communal Land Rights.
Speech by Richard Baloyi on the Debate on the State of the Nation Address 2007
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I have seen many fine women who, with a modesty mixed with politeness, refuse the greatest and most tempting offers made them by our forward youths; often they excuse themselves with a simple _tirra-tano_, 'I am married,' and at other times they smiled and declined it with
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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They called wheat at Teneriffe tano, at Lancerota triffa; barley, in the grand Canary, bore the name of aramotanoque, and at
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They called wheat at Teneriffe tano, at Lancerota triffa; barley, in the grand
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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WTF is Janet Nappy-tano doing on the tube yesterday talking about oil in the ocean and trying to spin it into a Homeland Security issue?
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