In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
VOLK
Etymology 1
Noun
volk pl (plural only)
(South Africa) The Afrikaner people.
Etymology 2
Variant form.
Noun
volk pl (plural only)
(now, obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of folk
Source: Wiktionary
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ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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