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• Ayto. — Ayto. abreviatura 1. Ayuntamiento …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

• Ayto — This very unusual name can probably be best described as a variant dialectal spelling. It is believed that the name originates in the Lincolnshire region, an area of early 7th century Anglo Saxon domination, and is a shortened version of the… …   Surnames reference

• a — [OE] The indefinite article in English is ultimately identical with the word one (as is the case, even more obviously, in other European languages – French un, German ein, and so on). The ancestor of both a(n) and one was ān, with a long vowel,… …   Word origins

• an — [OE] The indefinite article in English is ultimately identical with the word one (as is the case, even more obviously, in other European languages – French un, German ein, and so on). The ancestor of both a(n) and one was ān, with a long vowel,… …   Word origins

• aardvark — see EARTH, FARROW …   Word origins

• abacus — [17] Abacus comes originally from a Hebrew word for ‘dust’, ’ābāq. This was borrowed into Greek with the sense of ‘drawing board covered with dust or sand’, on which one could draw for, among other purposes, making mathematical calculations. The… …   Word origins