In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
VAVASOUR
Etymology
Noun
vavasour (plural vavasours)
(historical) a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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