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How Currencies Got Their Names

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Its not “peso de echo” its “peso de ocho” and its pronounced more like otcho, not like okobrbrFunny oversight tho lol
Comment from : @mikechadid2568

This video has so many mistakes it kinda seem like you are trolling us
Comment from : @Albanez39

Very interesting!
Comment from : @rsfaeges5298

franc, ruble, hryvnia, rand,
Comment from : @clement2780

bck, quid?
Comment from : @clement2780

why $1 not 1$?
Comment from : @clement2780

złoty koruna krona forint baht dông yuan won yen rupee pound dollar lira drakhma peseta escudo guilder, Deutsch mark , peso, sol, real, cent centimes
Comment from : @clement2780

Dagnabbit, you didn't explain the dinar!
Comment from : @danrobrish3664

6:22 Yes, it has In Spain they say "pavos" and in France "balles"
Comment from : @uninhm

What about the bolivar?
Comment from : @AlexeiLjanej

in hebrew BOTH the WORD MONEY and SILVER is KESEF (KEH SEHF) כסף Eh as in BED to me ot looks like a tea pot w a handle round bowel and spout LOL
Comment from : @cootmaster

Lira?
Comment from : @nadermansour7487

You skipped over the Chinese renminBI "Renmin" just means "people" (as in the people of a country), and also shows up in China's country name "renmin gonghe guo" (People's Republic (of China))brbrBut "Bi" here means money, as in metal coin style money From what I have seen, the theory is that it comes from old measure for a bolt of cloth Back in the earlier Chinese dynasties, bolts of cloth (especially silk) were used as a kind of currency Later on, this word would be used for metal coins (as in "Gold Bi" for gold coins) And so in modern chinese "Bi" came to be the generic word for "coin"
Comment from : @alexanderbrady5486

Actually Thal (or Tal) means just "valley", thaler means "from the valley" So dollar could be called "valley's"
Comment from : @georgb710

“Dollar” comes from “t(h)aler,” which is short for “Joachimsthaler;” that is, “something that comes from [Saint] Joachim’s Valley” So, “dollar,” in effect, just means “something that comes from the valley”
Comment from : @louismelahn1805

In Latin American Spanish the general informal word for money is "plata" It literally means "silver" In Spain they say "pasta", which means "paste" The formal word for money is "dinero", which comes from the Latin "denarius" (a type of coin in ancient Rome)
Comment from : @a2falcone

I'll add, given that I just came back from the bar They have a particularly high-gravity (13 ABV) beer there called Business Imperial Stout by Stillwater Artisinal Due to its abundant use of the $ symbol on the can, I took to calling it "Cash Money" and the name kinda stuck at that particular bar Guess that means I'm part of a local cultural phenomenon? I think?
Comment from : @seancondon5572

Huh You know this morning I was wondering about the origins of the word "Dollar" I mean, on its face - no currency pun intended - it seems to just be a random word Good to know even this has its origins
Comment from : @seancondon5572

Britain once had coins called crowns [5 shillings] and half-crowns [2s6d] Decimalisation in 1971] made hem obsolete, although commemorative coins called crowns are occasionally issued,now with a face value of £5
Comment from : @michaelhaywood8262

Hey how about shillings
Comment from : @nyoni_tour6677

Question is the afrikaans's word "geld" germanic?
Comment from : @luzellemoller6621

Not peso de a echo, pieza de a ocho
Comment from : @ciroguerra-lara6747

You didn´t mention that the Spanish and Mexican Dollars (Pieces of Eight, ocho reales, peso) were used in the USA before they decided to print their own dollars, and they were worth less than mexican pesos/dollars
Comment from : @ciroguerra-lara6747

Wow i didn't know the old czech "tolar" and the english "Dollar" had the same origin Really surprising to learn that it was inventedi in czechia, since we usually unsurprisingly see it as an American thing
Comment from : @mrstrawberry7

what about kromer? /j
Comment from : @Kyropinesis

In Romania we have the Romanian leu, equal to 020$ The word "leu" means lion in Romanian, which stems from the fact that in the Middle Ages we used dutch coins called lowenthalers, and while some people said "lăuăntalări", it was way too long, so the majority looked on the face of the coin and saw a lion brIt is divided into 100 bani "ban" just means money, but it also is a type of monarch In the west of the country, in Banat, the ruler was a ban, so all the money there had his face on it Therefore, people started calling all money "bani" and from there, came the hundredth piece of a leubrMoldova also uses a currency called the leu, equal to 005$, divided into 100 bani
Comment from : @SkyTheHusky

so capsa became cash and cache?
Comment from : @salamisandwich1558

Parts of north Africa still have francs
Comment from : @rohankishibe8259

My knee!
Comment from : @B121AN1

You left out the Forint, which apparently comes from the city name Firenze (Florence for English speakers)
Comment from : @zoltanpataki

My favourite slang word for the "dollar" is the "smacker"
Comment from : @bilgriffin

We in Belgium had also the Frank Just like France, Luxembourg and indeed Switzerland
Comment from : @raodvanlaontotaoke4993

The lyric is in the ritch man's world not a ritch man's world
Comment from : @ruben2-02

Złoty
Comment from : @GcubePlayer8

Aussies have moolah
Comment from : @emersongarcia7128

6:25 In France we refer to money as "balles", balls (as in sports ball) or "boules" (as in sphere or scrotum)br - 't'a couté combien l'pantalon ?br - 30 balles
Comment from : @gambe96

The Spanish word for cash is Efectivo from the Latin effectivus, wich means "that it carries something out/gets something done" Probably because unlike checks or bank accounts, cash money just gets the transaction done immediately
Comment from : @TheBerzekerC

Liechtenstein uses the Swiss franc too brWhy you gotta do my little Liechtenstein dirty like that? 😤
Comment from : @bjbruner

I'm VERY disappointed that you left off Som, Manat, Dinar/Denar, Dirham, Lek, Lev, Leu and Rial/Riyal/Real Is there a Part 2? You could have also explained why different clusters of countries have the same names
Comment from : @keelahrose

Cent comes from the french word ‘cent’ meaning one hundred
Comment from : @geowright31

In Brazil, we use Real (which can mean royal/real)
Comment from : @itsannaluh5362

Also here in The states, nicknames for cash can be Skrilla,Duckets,Cheddar,Paper, Ends
Comment from : @Garbagejuicewaterfall

Here in Australia we use the $$$$brOther countries that also use the dollar are Hong Kong and Singapore ($1 aud equals exactly $1 sng)
Comment from : @debbieanne7962

Wow I knew Taler and Dollar all this time but didn’t know they knew each other!
Comment from : @gentuxable

the term "dollar" obviously comes from the term "holla holla get dolla"
Comment from : @AVI-lh6rm

In my country we use euro but in albania we use Lek which might come from a known figure whose name was Lekë
Comment from : @leoartshala4373

Guatemalan’s use the Quetzal which is just named after the National bird so I suppose that is similar to the Loonie but the whole currency is called that
Comment from : @Winchester123

Rupya/roopya, I guess can mean wrought silver or metal, but I really don't know if that's a common translation As a rule of thumb, in Sanskrit, almost no word has fewer than a dozen meanings Also, as a rule of thumb, in Sanskrit, if you don't know what a word means, chances are that one of its meanings is "mountain"brbrMy guess is that another thing you can take away is that the "roop" comes from "shape" or "form" in a lot of mythology, we have the term "vishwaroopam", which is the absolute or true form of a magical being (think, "you fools; This is not even my final form!") When that is used as a verb, it can mean to forge, mold, or stamp something into a particular shape, which is something one would do to a coin
Comment from : @ShootMyMonkey

I was expecting bReal/b but it was only fake
Comment from : @LumaSloth

"Som" is used in central asia
Comment from : @khatlonzoda

The Rupee currency is actually been used in much more nations than what you mentioned, as in-brbrIndia - bIndian Rupee (₹)/bbrPakistan - bPakistani Rupee (Rs)/bbrNepal - bNepalese Rupee (NRs)/bbrSri Lanka - bLankan Rupee (SLRs)/bbrIndonesia - bIndonesian Rupiya (Rp)/bbrMaldives - bMaldivian Rufiyaa (Rf)/bbrSeychelles - bSeychellois Rupee (SRe)/bbrMauritius - bMauritian Rupee (Rs)/bbrbrPs:- brIndia is the only one which uses a symbolic notation b(₹)/b for Rupee in addition to than the regular alphabetical one b(Rs)/b brbrAnd, Pakistan & Mauritius don't have a diff stylized notation, they just use the regular Rupee abr which is b(Rs)/b just like that of India
Comment from : @kxnyshk

okay so the origin of the word money is the same as the portuguese word for coin "moeda", and the origin of "cash" is the same as box "caixa", which is also how we refer to both cashiers and registers in stores and stuff in Brazil
Comment from : @lcindra1641

That hyrule line was good
Comment from : @guilhermecastro9893

Cash used to mean money box? Our word with common root (kasa) means "money", "cash register" and "check out", so we kind of still use it like that
Comment from : @scorbiot

In germany the EURO was called TEURO by some people in the beginning Teuer meaning expansive in german They were scared that some businesses would use the switch from Mark to Euro to raise their prices unnoticed by unaware customers
Comment from : @mabus4910

6:58 COHROHNAH VEEROOZ
Comment from : @vunga8195

The word 'dollar' itself derives from the Flemish or Low German word daler (in German taler or thaler ), short for Joachimstaler, referring to a coin from the silver mines of Joachimstal, in Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic)
Comment from : @normanpeters7544

The Bulgarian currency the лев (lev) is derived from the old Bulgarian word for lion
Comment from : @barry63196

danish currency was at one time in the past called "rigs daler" aka realm dollars
Comment from : @Tr4sh_can34

Money absolutely brings happiness
Comment from : @1purapericulo

We use "Shekel" here in IsraelbrIt comes from "Mishkal" meaning weight, it comes from a weight of silver Sort of like Talents of Silver
Comment from : @aredjayc2858

Chinese currency is RMB, renminbi which means coin of the people, no one really calls it yuan now
Comment from : @stew748

In Canada we have loonie
Comment from : @Iamblack34

I´m from Argentina and we use U$D for dollar and $ for Peso Because we use dollar to make huge buys, for example a house, a car When we use the "Luca" is $1000, the Gamba $100, the "Palos Verdes " ("green sticks", because our money is colorful and the dollar are are green) U$D 1000 Just some more information!
Comment from : @marianellatamburo9865

If you look at the pound symbol written in cursive, it looks like a cursive L with a horizontal line through it I suspect this is another relation to pounds/lbs/libra
Comment from : @nikk8089

Is the spanish peso and indian pesa related?
Comment from : @introtwerp

“By the Latin root for crown corona”brbgasp/b
Comment from : @colleenstoker2100

Given the huge size of the Middle East and their enormous influence on world economy, I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the dinar
Comment from : @joeywild2011

The Shekel is my favourite named currency It just seems so old lol
Comment from : @rooneye

In Spanish countries there are many names for money Like Dinero probably coming from Denarius (roman coin) or Plata meaning Silver, and moneda for coins coming from moneta There are many more Another subject if you are looking for one is how the roman empire named/affected our currencies
Comment from : @RhmnLego

"The Peso is using in Mexico, brArgentina and Chile"brPhilippines: hello?
Comment from : @markomoko_o

The British system of currency was actually the European standard until the 18th century The Franc replaced the French Pound, ( iLivre/i in French) which was divided into 20 isou/i and 240 idenier/i The Mark was also related to this system, the Mark was a German unit of account equal to half a pound of silver
Comment from : @tenacious3911

Wait so cash box is literally box box?
Comment from : @metleon

The word cash came from south indian word kashu which means money This word was taken into english language during european colonization of india
Comment from : @ashvinvarughese9319

Fun fact: Moneta means coin in Lithuanian
Comment from : @minedoimperija

Pre decimal pounds are very interesting in their coinage and splitting properties Their currency was based on the mathematical decomposition of 240brbrThe guinea is a dumb coin though
Comment from : @noobpro9759

The Euro originally was going to be called ECU (as for European Currency Unit), but since there used to be a french medieval currency called "ecu" the germans didn't like it, so it went to "Euro"
Comment from : @nenu

we use Riyal which linked royalty
Comment from : @riyoal6189

6:58 bC O R O N A ? !/b
Comment from : @theoriginalpulse

The topic is interesting but your speech makes it boring and difficult to listen through
Comment from : @punisherlee

The dried fruit is an entirely different word with a different spelling So I hope you were joking Mr Name Explain
Comment from : @grahamlive

The 25 gulders piece used to be called a daalder With the dollar backstory I now know why Thanks man
Comment from : @9delta988

What about the largest form of money the rai Stone
Comment from : @kskkichiro3600

Me and my siblings (We're Americans) often use "quid" for "buck" We also say "telly" for "TV" and "loo" for "john" No doubt due to early exposure to a lot of British TV (er,telly), and having a Mum who was a bit of an Anglophile, despite being German and Welsh! PS It's common in Pittsburgh, PA (USA) to refer to one's mother as "Mum" It's found in Canada too
Comment from : @jamesslick4790

6:20 At least some people in Germany (including my parents) tend to call Euros Euronen, simply because it is sounding somewhat nicer than Euro or Euros and it is simply made with a typical plural ending in German -nen, -en or simply -n when the last letter of the singular is already an e like in Brücke (bridge) Another example: Million is also million in German, although we pronounce it differently, but the plural is Millionen So you could say 5 Millionen Euronen, when you mean 5 million Euros, having some sort of a rhyme in the name, making it sound even nicer
Comment from : @Hendricus56