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Currency Names Explained: www.leftovercurrency.com/curr...
How The World Currencies Got Their Names: www.independent.co.uk/money/h...
Money Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/money
Currency On Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/curre...
One World, One Currency: www.investopedia.com/financia...
How Many Currencies: www.worldatlas.com/articles/h...
Currency Symbols: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currenc...
Dollar Etymology: www.merriam-webster.com/words...
Cent Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/cent
Penny, Nickel, Dime, & Quarter Etymology: www.todayifoundout.com/index.p...
Bucks Etymology: www.todayifoundout.com/index.p...
Loonie & Toonie Etymology: www.businessinsider.com/why-c...
Cable & Fibre: www.vantagefx.com/education_c...
Krone Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/krone
Pieces Of Eight/The Spanish Dollar: thepirateempire.blogspot.com/2...
Ruble Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/ruble
Pound Etymology: www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/0...
Quid Etymology: www.funtrivia.com/askft/Quest...
Quid Pro Quo: www.grammarly.com/blog/quid-p...
Cash Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/cash
"The rupee is the currency of many places including but not limited to, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Hyrule."
And...?
@@Omar_ayach
The joke is that a fictional place was included in the list.
Your name speaks for your profile picture
I mean, it's not wrong
@@TaterVG seriously?
The Spanish word peso also means weight.
Also the Shekel in Hebrew is derived from the same root as weight. Interesting.
And pound means weight Atleast in America
@@RobertovBJJ That is what he explained. A pound was worth a pound of silver back in the day. Pound as a weight is abbreviated LB. I guess it comes from the word libra which means 12 ounces.
And then theres dollar
Is the old Spanish peseta from the same root?
Minor correction: the currency is called KRONE with E in Norway too, not just Denmark.
Was about to point that out myself, it's a very minor thing at least
Sweden as well
@@JohanJohanssonxllv Eh, no? I just double-checked with a coin, it says EN KRONA. As I thought.
@@JohanJohanssonxllv to beat a dead horse: no, it's spelled with an "a"
We also have fish on our papper money
Corona means crown
RUclips: DEMONITIZED!
Also RUclips: Jk
Also RUclips: Unless...
its actually interesting because of how the name "coronavirus" came because in the microscope the virus has spikes around and it kinda looked like the tips of a crown / like a solar corona you'd see in images of the sun's plasma
@@Yadobler oh I know and many people know. But RUclips don't care. They carpet bombed the word Corona so now educational channels talking about the sun or someone talking about the beer gets demonitized
In Chinese corona virus literally translated to crown shaped virus
You forgot little Liechtenstein when mentioning countries that use Francs, as Liechtenstein uses the Swiss Franc.
In my country our currency is called "złoty" literally translating to "gold", but much to dismay of libertarians it's not backed by it. It's subunit the "grosz" comes from the latin phrase "denarius grosso" translating to "thick denar".
Złoty translates more to 'Golden'
Yes Im Polish too
New Caledonia still uses the Franc as well.
Comoros also uses Franc.
You can also say złot which is a plural property word for złote (gold) YES I'm polish
I don't think any currency still in circulation now adopts the gold/silver standard.
"Wait, You mean everyone didn't use US Dollar everywhere?"
Say my Aunt, who once try to paid food in Paris with US money
As a shop worker, I can relate on many levels, also no £50 notes accepted before 2pm.
Foxtrot707 really? Why not?
Stores open with fixed amounts of money in their tills, so making change for large bills can be tough until they've made enough transactions that day.
@@joshuahawkes7218 even if the transaction is £45 and above?
@@SantomPh if its high enough then I guess it would be ok, but most people only buy stuff £10 or lower since its just a corner convenience store so everything is cheap anyways.
“Pieces of 8” in spanish is actually “Pedazos de Ocho”.... I don’t know where you got that from. The word “Peso” means “Weight”
It's also a "piece", as in a "whole unit", as opposed to a part.
peso de a 8 is something real, the peso was subdivided in 8 something elses
It was called peso de 8, real de 8, peso duro or peso fuerte.
Originally, the State didn't coin money...a merchant or noble would bring in bullion or coin to a mint that was operated as a private venture under the King's license. Supposedly for a Castilian mark's worth of silver (8 troy ounces) you would get back 64 "reales" in coin. However, from the beginning that mark was made into 67 coins: 64 for you, one kept for the minter's profit and two kept for the King's profit.
As those eight reales were just under an ounce, a coin of that weight proved very convenient for foreign trade.
6:25 In Spain, we do use "Pavos" to refer to money as well, which translates to "Turkeys" and comes from 1930, when 5 pesetas was the price for one Turkey.
Eduardo Arango pavos es la forma en español de decir "buck", no? Tambien "buck" es una forma de decir bambi (ciervo), a si que podria ser relacionado a lo que tu dices.
@@bochijaramillo5708 Si, es como decir "Buck", exactamente.
Eduardo Arango gracias por aclarlo!
when i was in spain in the 70's we called them potatoes. because the only thing we bought with them was booze and couldn't speak clearly.
What currencies have you used in your life? I’ve used the British Pound, US Dollar, Euro, Icelandic Krona, Japanese Yen, Sri Lankan Rupee, and Swedish Krona! EDIT: Forgot about Hyrulian Rupees. I’ve used them an awful lot.
I’ve used Yen and Dollars
pound and euro
AU dollars and US dollar.
Euro in multiple countries and Swedish krona (SEK) cause well, I live there
Just Rupees cuz im a legend of zelda character.(also im indian)
8:37 As the video says, South Africa's currency is called the 'Rand'. This word comes from the Afrikaans word "witwatersrand" which means "white waters ridge". The Witwatersrand Basin holds the world's largest known gold reserves and has produced over 1.5 billion ounces (over 40,000 metric tons), which represents about 50% of all the gold ever mined on earth.
The city of Johannesburg grew up around the Witwatersrand basin. Because of the gold industry, Johannesburg is the largest city in the world that is NOT situated next to a river, bay or sea.
In Dutch it just means side.
-Gemberkoekje- that’s actually pretty cool because if rand directly translates to ridge, that would be a similarity. Ridge and side can sometimes have similar meanings.
witwatersrand means white water's edge/side in dutch. in afrikaans too i assume?
johannesburg is bigger than atlanta georgia? guess i have to google stuff. after googling, atlanta metro area is bigger, but johannesburg city limits is bigger.
@@carllarsen Yeah, I am not sure. I've done further researched based on your question. In this source on POPULATIONS worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities it says Joburg has a population of more than 5 million (ranked 68 on the list), but Atlanta has a population of more than 500 000 people (ranked 1088 on the list). Does that look right to you? I suspect population might be the measure. being used.
Penny could come from the German "pfennig", which was their denotation of 1/100 of a mark
I recognized that word from TNOmod soundtrack
That spelling Germans choose is gosh. Just write fening
@@hugo57k91
You could spell it that way, but you would be wrong. The "p" is pronounced.
@@frankendragon5442 I mean we call them fenings here in Bosnia. It's the same thing. That's what I meant with that comment
Pfennig works, but so does pence (1/100th of a pound) becoming penny.
8:30, sidenote: Russian minor coins (=.01 Ruble) depicted St. George slaying the dragon with spear (kopyo). Hence Kopeyka.
We also have west slav's "groshu", but it mean trifle.
Additionaly word "dengi"-money probably borrowed from turkic nomads.
Wow. I didn’t know that!
Федулов Айсен Den’gi is a Mongol word.
@@StamfordBridge turkic
Quacker Fair enough. The word itself is of Turkic origin, but the people of Rus’ got the word from the Mongols (under which empire several Turkic languages were united), starting from early in the long Mongol Occupation of Rus.
Patrick: We talk about currencies a lot
Swiss people: Aight Imma head out
Robin I don’t get it.
the Swiss have Francs...
@@wannabehistorian371 Swiss people don't like talking about money
@@robezy0 its the gold question, isn't it?
When you get rid of all that Nazi gold, then we’ll talk
You messed up the Peso. It's "peso de a ocho" (Peso/Weight of eight [reals.]) Not, "peso de a echo."
It's as if you had said that "sixpence" comes from "pincers that are sex toys."
fun fact: the Brazilian Real has that name because it's supposed to represent the real value our currency has in financial transactions (due to the rampant inflation we had with our previous currencies). the older ones (cruzeiro, cruzado) were references to the Southern Cross constellation.
It was an internal accounting currency, with no notes, nor coins minted, until the Cruzado blew off, and a new currency was needed!
1:00 = Money
1:36 = Currency
3:00 = Dollar ($)
4:20 = Cent (¢)
4:33 = Dollar Nicknames
5:54 = Euro (€)
6:23 = Euro Nickname
6:51 = Koruna/Krona/Krone (Kč/Kr)
7:13 = Rupee (₹)
7:33 = Peso ($/₱)
7:54 = Franc (Fr)
Error: Swiss Frank is also used in Liechtenstein which is in Europe.
8:19 = Yuan/Yen/Won (¥/₩)
8:26 = Ruble/Rouble (₽)
8:37 = Rand (R)
8:47 = Pound (£)
9:31 = Pound Nickname
9:57 = Cash
In my country of Poland we use a currency called "złoty" (zł) which literally means "golden" and it sub-unit is called "grosz' (gr) which comes from the Latin phrase "denarius grosso" meaning "thick money". Seriously this channel mentioned my countries siblings Czechia & Slovakia also my countries BFFs Hungary, Romania and the Baltics (Yes I know Croatia thinks of Poland as their senpai but I still waiting to give then the notice) but never Poland. Is Czehcia really way more well-known than Poland outside of Europe?
Thanks for writing the name origin of złoty as i definitely wouldn't
Small correction: Sri Lanka and Pakistan don't use that Indian rupee symbol as the symbol of our rupees. In general both Pakistan and SL use "Rs" as the symbol.
Only Sri Lanka use "රු" and
"ரு".
I'm so early, the Canadian penny is still a thing
the Canadian what
@@suwinkhamchaiwong8382 Canada stopped using pennies a few years ago :p
LeadMuncher09 I still have a huge bucket of them. Waiting 70 years for when they become rare.
Do you mean "Last time I was this early, the Canadian penny was still a thing"?
@@Obviary Nope
Did you know that despite the fact that ireland uses the euro, we still call it a quid sometimes due to the fact that ireland used to use the irish pound.
And before independence, the British pound.
6:30
There are plenty of nicknames for the Euro actually. These vary however for every country, so especially if you only use English sources I doubt you would be able to find them.
Most just use the nicknames they had for their old currencies to refer to the new euro (like if the US dollar were to change, people would still use 'buck' for it, or even 'dollar').
Such as quid in Ireland, carried over from the Irish pound
"Cent" Comes from the Latin word "cent" which means One part from one hundred. Not century. Century Comes from the same Latin word cent. Not the other way around.
In Hungary we have "forint". The name comes from the name of the Italian gold coin "fiorino d'oro" which was used in the city of Florence.
This is also the origin of the florin.
"golden flower" then and btw flower of Florence is a lily
The former currency of the Netherlands was the "Gulden", which was the old Dutch word for "golden", which was probably because golden coins have been used throughout history. In the Gulden Era, we also used a word that was derived from "daler": "(Rijks)daalder" ("(Empire's) daler"), for a coin worth 2.5 Gulden
Funny how it means "gold" but in the 20th century they were made from silver
In German there is also the word "Taler"!
i think it comes from gelden. which means to pay. and not goud or gouden.
both words are different even in old germanic!
@@jjc5475, 'gulden' is wel degelijk ouderwets Nederlands voor 'gouden' (denk maar aan 'het gulden vlies')
@@jjc5475 Dont you see the irony in you error? In your own words gelden means to pay. To chance it into money, into gold. Geld and gold/goud DO have the same origin!
You always make videos on such interesting topics that I've never even realized how interesting they actually are! Keep up the good work :)
Fun Fact: The Dollars symbol actually originated from the Peso sign... that's why it's $. It used to be a PS for Peso, until the P and the S merged into $. So there you go Trump.
I've heard it was from US, since the dollar sign typically has two lines through the S, not just one. They superimposed the U over the S, then cut off the bottom of the U, leaving the two lines.
@@brokenursa9986 Lucas Bender is correct. The US symbol explanation is a back derivation because the earlier history was lost or ignored.
If you write a P in cursive, starting from the bottom stem, going up around the semicircle, then continuing to make an S around the stem of the P, you get basically a dollar sign. That's why the symbol for peso in Mexico is also a $.
@@PuzzledMonkey I actually looked it after I commented. Both origins are considered correct, but for their respective versions of the symbol, and the single-stroke version of the symbol is older than the two-stroke version.
@@brokenursa9986 Also, during the colonial period and the early independence, the most commom currency in the US was the Spanish Peso, which was called a dollar by english speakers. When the US first coined American dollars, they made it with the same value of a spanish peso.
Another theory is that the striked s is due to the symbol of the spanish royal family in the Spanish Peso. Maybe all those theories have their weight on the history of the symbol.
Good job bringing politics into this
Fun facts: Indonesian Rupiah and Maldivian Rufiya also came from the same origin as Rupee.
Also Malaysian currency Ringgit is an obsolete term for "jagged" in Malay and was originally used to refer to the serrated edges of silver Spanish dollars that were used there in the past.
Well, money does have spikey edges and silver can make scissors
sharp
I looked at the Turkish Lira and it comes from the French word “livre” which supposedly is a weighing unit. Pretty accurate since people in the Ottoman empire used to weigh gold and stuff with some standard seeds to trade stuff since everything couldn’t be the same
baddcat Italy’s former currency was also called lira
I recon "livre" comes from the latin "libra" meaning "scale" (in which you measure mass). Nowadays the words coming from "libra" are used to translate the word "pound" (in the languages I know).
Also sign for pound is an italic L and it stands for libra.
Livre is also how the French refer to the pound. Interesting.
@@janpeternelj2309 The symbol for the British Pound is £ which has the same root.
You shoulda also talked about how the £ looks like an "L" because it used to be known as a lira aswell, which also means pound in Italian, and is currently used in turkey as their local currency, which means that £ & ₺ are both related!
The £ sign evolved from Pound, which still is abbreviated to lb/Lb, so yes, it came from the letter L. :)
ArcanisUrriah and it comes from libra :)
And both lira and pound come from Libra Pondo, which is why in some countries, the pound is called livre in French and Libra in Spain and Italian
Money, money, money must be funny in a rich man's world
The video for the song actually shows a Swedish Kroner.
7/4 time signature :)
edit: nvm, I was thinking of “Money” by Pink Floyd lol
I thought the World funny in the Lyric was honey.
@@MrCubFan415 Wait wasn't pink floyd's money in 7/8?
"Money makes the World go around, the World go around, the World go around, It makes the World go 'round"
_Liza Minelli in Cabaret_
"and Hyrule"
I wasn’t ready for that lol
But Hyrule is a fictional world.
Aksana_Belarus what if... he was making a joke
I first didn’t get that one , cause in German the currency in Hyrule is called „Rubin“ (which translates to „ruby“ in English), while the currency is calle „Rupie“. But it’s funny that the two currencies have the same name in English.
Nirutivan 98 yet it shows a picture a fucking game? You didn’t think anyone would catch you on this didn’t you.
In Ireland you'll sometimes hear Euros' being called YoYos, more around the time of the switchover in 2002.
Another random factoid: The double line = in the Euro symbol € was due to Epiphone guitars having a trademark on the single line epsilon symbol.
Officially they claim the two lines mean unity, stability or some shite , but the truth is epiphone got their first.
“And Hyrule”! By the way the Rupee symbol looks like a handwritten き for a Japanese person. I can’t help but think of that every time I see it...
I knew he’d say Hyrule...
Well it was always "Rupee" in Japan, but they were breifly called "rubies" for the first game. In fact, the early NES name led to various translations using some variation of "ruby" as its name.
The symbol of Rupee is a modified version of the Sanskrit alphabet र (ra). As the rupee starts with the sound Ra.
Fun nickname: the "pieces of eight" you reference is still around in the US and Canada, with a twist. A quarter is also known as "two bits" - aka two of the eight pieces that make up a dollar.
Hence the chant which begins: "two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar..." as all Floridians will know.
@@jaycee330 - Cool! I'm not familiar with that at all, but I'm also a long, long way from Florida. Something new to look up is always welcome. 8-)
@@erinbutler2892 Look up "Mr Two Bits"
I'm glad you remembered to add the Loonie and the Twoonie.
In the German speaking area, the Euro after its introduction got the demeaning nickname 'Teuro' , a mix of the words 'teuer' , meaning expensive, and Euro. This happened because at first it gave people a sense of prices having increased all over the place because of shift in currency. Though it is less used now.
This video made a lot of cents!
I'll see myself out
Nice
Also when you mentioned "capsa", the czech word "kapsa" means pocket and then also from there derives the term "kapesné", meaning pocket money. Keep up the good work!
Isn't the Czech word for paper tissues also derived from this one?
@@tantus79 exactly, "kapesné"
@@tantus79 It does but it's for tissues in general. Not only paper ones
2:43 is there a reason you put the symbols to resemble the word 'yes'?
yes
A-SIA
"This name of cent comes from century"
Err, no it doesn't, it comes from French 'cent' from Latin 'centum', which mean 'hundred'. The cent in century ofc comes from the same but English cent doesn't come from century
Congrats on this video. You're rock!
What part of UK are you come from? Your accent is quite interesting.
Thank you for the video. Very interesting. Happy to see Rand made the list!
Abba is a gift to the world and I’m glad you know it
Sweden ftw
The Swedish Beatles I call em
The name for Romanian Leu (Lion) comes from the fact that in the past we used belgian (i think) coins that had a lion on them.
In Bulgaria we use Lev(s) which also means Lion(s) and it refers to the lion being symbol of power
In Spain we say "perras (dogs)" and it comes from a lion that looked a dog
Support comment :D
By the way, keep up the good work your videos are amazing.
I read in one of my etymology books that 'buck' in reference to money comes from poker. Normally in poker, one's turn was signified with a silver dollar being passed around, but poor cowboys on their ranches in the wild west would not have a silver dollar, but nearly every cowpuncher would have a Buckhorn knife, made from the antler of a buck, and that was used in place of the silver coin. As gambling towns such as Las Vegas (technically 'Paradise!') began to be Capitalized the people working there grew up in the West, and would say things like 'pass the buck' and 'the buck stops here' even though they were using the silver dollars at this point, and eventually buck came to mean paper dollars as well as silver dollars.
I found this on time, not by notifications
7:48 "Echo" is not a word in Spanish, I think you mean "Ocho" (Eight)
echo is a word in spanish, just not the word he was looking for (it is a verb, roughly translates to 'i throw' or 'i toss')
@@yesid17 sjskfkd me había olvidado jaj, es que en mí país no se usa mucho.
@@yesid17 makes sense etymologically, because when sound echoes, it's kind of like the wall throwing it back to you.
"Is there an Echo in here?"
@@sojourner_303 not the same thing bud
The 2.5 gulders piece used to be called a daalder. With the dollar backstory I now know why. Thanks man.
Thanks for explaining "buck." It's a term I've used my whole life and never really understood.
And please, please, please do a video on the random old currency names of the UK! I've always wondered about those!
Blackcurrant has this weird "current" part
Almost like in Polish, "Czarna Porzeczka" where it could be translated literally into "at the small river"
So maybe theres something to it
Fun fact: polish złoty is, if I remember correctly, the last name of currency that is somehow related to gold.
It exactly means gold in polish
@@tymekmika6698 Rather golden, because gold is złoto
I thought about it not far back and I came to the conclusion that it goes back to the Middle Ages. There were 2 currencies in Poland, one "international" and one internal. The international currency was called Grosze Praskie, which was a fairly common currency made of Silver. That being said, considering it was a foreign currency (made by the Bohemians) the King of Poland wanted to get something fancy as well as something that would be purely Polish therefore he ordered the minting of a golden coin.
Now, in modern-day Poland prices are listed in Złoty and Groszy, so let's say there's a price tag of 25.99 then it's 25 Złotych (złotych being the plural adjective form of złoto, it literally needs to add "coins" or "monet" to make it into Golden Coins) and then 99 Groszy (which goes back to that ancient currency that's long forgotten by now)
Here's an article about that common currency: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_groschen
I don't know how that theory handles when it's scanned by a historian but etymologically at least it's sound!
Though öre/øre which are the 1/100th subdivision of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian kroner also come from aurum, the Latin word for gold.
@@seneca983 oh, really, it's my fault, I thought that øre were taken down, but apparently 50 øre still exists
Good deal. And a breakdown of some of the weird slang terms for various currencies might be interesting, like "cheddar" for example. Although that might be a pretty long video.
Would love to see part 2 covering some more such as some of the south East Asian currencies, the Malaysian Ringgit, Thai Baht, Cambodian Riel, Vietnamese Dong, and a lot of other that I can’t think of off the top of my head.
The basic name for Vietnamese currency (đồng / ₫) derives from a different Chinese source:
rather than the unit for "round", it's from the Chinese term for "copper coin" : tóng qián (铜钱).
Cambodia's "riel" might have been inspired by Spanish money traded from the Philippines.
Glad Hyrule got a shout-out toward it's currency.
I got some money from a guy in Ireland and he called the Euros "Yo yos." Dont know how widespread that is.
Chimeradave Common enough in the Capital, not so sure about outside of that
In Peru our currency, the Sol (S/) or PES has two variants:
Originally, back in 1863 it was adopted as derivation of "Solidum", which was a Roman and Bizantine coin.
As time passed, and because the word "Sol" also means "Sun", it was associated with the Sun god of the Incas: Inti. Inti (I/.) was also the name of our currency during the mid 80s and early 90s.
Another name for the S/1.00 coin is "luca"(many Latin American currencies have that term for similar reasons) as late XVIII Spanish coins had the king with aristocrat wig (wig=peluca, hence "luca").
Recalling the Inti experience, it caused us hiperinflation and the most used bill was of I/.500 ("quinientos") when convertion rate was stablished to return to the S/, the I/500 bill was worth S/. 0,50 (fifty cents). Nontheless, the word for 500 was still attached in the common language and it was shortened and transforned from "quina"(also name of the national tree on the CoA) to "china" (which means "Chinese", linked to the nickname of president Fujimori, when the Sol was brought back).
Another coin with a nickname in our currency is the S/ 0,10 ("Ferro"). It is shorten for "Ferrocarril" (Rail transport) as in the late XIX century a lot of bills had trains on them.
Patrick I feel you can make many more videos covering the detailed history of currency names. For instance, it would be interesting to know why the dividing unit of rouble is called kopeika and how this name came into being.
I also recommend a name explain video on Romanian lei. Leu means lion but the reason we got this name is because of the Dutch. And the etymology derives from taller/ dollar. Homework for you, Patrick ;)
Could have talked about: Dínar, common in middle east. and also some specific names like Lira(Turkey and Italy before Euro), could have said how the currency in spain was the Peseta, which has the same origin as the Peso. And the Mark, c'mon the germans always had a thing for a Mark. Florint, from Hungary and Netherlands before Euro also the Guilder, common in former dutch colonies.... maybe in another video.
Also Dinar is the currency of Serbia....and N.Macedonia but it is spelled Denar ( which is ironically the only one that stands out and also the closest to the original latin name for money - Denarius )
I personally spell it "twoonie" - since it's a two dollar coin . . .
In Hungary we have forint, related to Florin, related to Florence. It used to have fillér as a subunit, but it's not used anymore, maybe only in electronic context.
But we used to have pengő (referring to the sound a coin makes), and korona (not the virus) beforethat.
We also used to have the subunit krajcár (which I guess has something to do with the German "Kreuz", meaning cross).
Fun fact: Clips in Mistborn have that same "clipped off" etymology as rubles in the in-world lore. I'm pretty sure the boxings' in-world etymology was also brought up at some point but I don't remember it.
In Costa Rica we use the Colón ₡, named after Christopher Columbus (which in Spanish is called Cristóbal Colón).
It's so weird how official money can be named after one person. A few other countries do that too, I think, though not many.
The easiest one: złoty, polish currency, which literally means golden
Love your videos!!!!
In Germany we also sometimes refer to money as "Kohle" which means coal. Makes sense if you think about it.
Please don't burn your money.
Take it and safe it
other Words used from germans for Money: Asche, Bares, Flocken, Kohle, Knete, Kies, Kröten, Lappen, Mäuse, Moos...
And for the non Germans: ash, short version for Bargeld which means cash, flakes, coal, clay, gravel, toads, cloth(although there are also other translations), mice, moss
Moneten
That's a lot of names xd
I think in Berlin they use the term Pinke-Pinke for money as well. Whatever that means.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the real/riyal, the unit of currency in many Arab countries. I'm sure they have a common origin, despite the different spellings.
Brazilian currency is also called "real", plural "reais". Symbol is R$
I bet it's a common name.
Since "dinar" is related to "dimes" in English, and came from Roman currencies of "10" or "1/10", currency names like "rial/riel/riyal" sound like old Spanish for "royal". So maybe also have either ancient Roman origins, or later from trade with the Spanish empire. Even Cambodian currency came from trade with the Spanish Philippines.
The Rupee currency is actually been used in much more nations than what you mentioned, as in-
India - *Indian Rupee (₹)*
Pakistan - *Pakistani Rupee (Rs.)*
Nepal - *Nepalese Rupee (NRs.)*
Sri Lanka - *Lankan Rupee (SLRs.)*
Indonesia - *Indonesian Rupiya (Rp.)*
Maldives - *Maldivian Rufiyaa (Rf.)*
Seychelles - *Seychellois Rupee (SRe.)*
Mauritius - *Mauritian Rupee (Rs.)*
Ps:-
India is the only one which uses a symbolic notation *(₹)* for Rupee in addition to than the regular alphabetical one *(Rs.)*
And, Pakistan & Mauritius don't have a diff stylized notation, they just use the regular Rupee abr. which is *(Rs.)* just like that of India.
Sri Lanka use රු(Sinhala) and ரு(Tamil) as unofficial symbols of the Sri Lankan Rupee.
Also the official short term for the Sri Lankan Rupee is LKR, not SLRs.
Could you do a video on the name of units of measurement? Like more common ones like inches and meters, as well a more obscure ones like furlongs and moles
It would be nice to know about old currencies, like here in finland we used to have marks(markka) like in germany.
'Mark' was an old word in English & German for a region of a kingdom - a province or principality or something like that. It's easy to see how it could become the name for the currency of that 'mark'. Tolkien used the word 'mark' in The Lord of the Rings.
@@richardholmquist7316 Deutsch Mark
@@richardholmquist7316 To refer to Rohan - the Riddermark. I think.
I live in Aruba . We use the Florin 🤗
This freakin Guy and sometimes say guilders instead
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"Penny" comes from the German "Pfennig", which used to be our smallest coin (1/100th of a Mark) before the changeover to Euro.
Edit: According to Wikipedia, both "Pfennig" and "Pfund" (pound) derive from the Latin "pondus" (also pound).
I was really hoping you would say Hyrule when talking about Rupees. You didn't let me down!
Here in U.S.A. we use "Samoleon."
What?
I wondered if anyone else was going to think of that. Would like to see the etymology of this one! Simolean.
@@bochijaramillo5708 Nickname for the US dollar.
@@StatsJedi Portmanteau of "simon" (Br. slang of sixpence) and "Napoleon". The term originated in New Orleans.
Does the word "capsule" come from capsa too?
Yep, by way of the French (little box). And similar meanings of "encapsulate" (to put in a box), and the word "cap" itself.
While Spanish is a largely forgotten language in the Philippines, an area where it still thrives is in money. We often use Spanish when talking about money (or time), and English or one of the many native languages when talking about other amounts and numbers.
About nicknames for the Euro.
While I'm not aware of any names for euros that would be equivalent to bucks for dollars or quid for pounds, there is one in Dutch for the 1, 2 and 5 eurocent coins: rosse centen / rostjes.
The name is derived from ros, the Dutch word for the copper red colour of the coins. (Ros is also used for the hair colour of gingers)
I love ABBA. They’re releasing new songs this year along with having VR tours and biopics in the works. Thanks Simon Fuller btw for making this reunion happen!!!
Fun fact: money actually doesnt grow on trees but its actually made out of trees.
Paper is made of of trees and money is paper.
Weeelll... UK, Canada, Australia and many others currently swith to plastic polymers. US Dollars are made out of the same stuff jeans trousers are and so on.
@@LucasBenderChannel many banknotes are made with cloth and paper
The U.S. dollar is made of 60% cotton and 40% linen(flax).
In many places, the paper in paper money is made from cotton fiber, not wood fiber.
You really should do more parts! :D
Greetings from Azerbaijan! We, together with Turkmens, use Manat as our currency. Manat literally means a deposit coupon. Manat emerged as a medieval financial instrument used for trade facilitation (a proto paper currency). Manat's subunit is Qepik (say like [gah-pick]). Qepik literally means low nominal money.
"every currency has its own symbol"
*sad Serbian Dinar noises*
LemonGamer SOme currency symbols however is usually a two to three letter abbreviation of their name.
*cries in rp and rm*
The Indian Rupee only got its symbol relatively recently. Surely something can be thought of for the Serbian Dinar!
The Vietnamese Dong: I'm I a joke to you?
Yes. Yes you are.
Vietnamese currency comes from the *Chinese word for "copper"* rather than "round"/"piece" like in Chinese-Korean-Japanese. *We are so alone!* *sniffs*
PS: Kindly "like" my comment above so it will be less alone!
In East Asia, Mongolian tugrik and Macanese Pataca are also currency units that originate from "圓" (Round).
And by now, "圓" has been replaced by simpler homophonic characters in some countries. In China it was replaced by "元", in Japan by "円", and in Korea it is no longer written in Chinese characters.
Hong Kong Dollar and Taiwan Dollar are still described "圓" in local traditional Chinese.
Hence, the currencies of East Asia are all "Round".
In Croatia we use Kuna as our currency. The name translates to "marten" as in animal. Very similar to how US dollar are called "bucks" as marten skins were used for trading and we kept the name and started to use it for our currency.
It subdivides into "lipa" which means linden tree, don't know the origin of that, sadly.
We have three values for our coins (four if you count the 25 kuna coin, but those are rare and are extremely collectible) in kunas, 1 kuna, 2 kuna and 5 kuna which have animals printed on the reverse, nightingale for 1 kuna, tuna for 2 kuna and a brown bear for 5 kuna.
Lipa coins have plants on the reverse and they come in 1 lipa (corn cob), 5 lipa (oak leaves), 10 lipa (tobbaco), 20 lipa (olive branch) and 50 lipa (degenia velebitica).
Last time I was this early, these jokes were funny.
Witwatersrand is not the name of a city, It's the Afrikaans word for ridge
i was hoping you’d talk about the dinar, a popular currency in the middle east. Anyway, great video!
Somebody wanted to put a restaurant inside the Bank of Baghdad, serving breakfast, lunch, and dinars.
My country we use Bolivars, this one also has a very rich history to the name so i am surprised you didn’t talk about this. Very good video anyway
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You gonna get a lot of money for this money video. I've seen two stock exchange commercials already. 😜
RAND user here. I never knew how the naming of our currency got to be such but now I know. Thanks
And it wasn’t until this video that I realized that that “V” thing doodled on your face was a goatee.
The Indian Rupee (INR) is colloquially called *taka* in the Indian state of West Bengal. The name has its origin from *thamga* , a word which means stamp or seal. Thamga was used by ancient Eurassian nomads around 3500 BC
Please do a video in the on the names of the coins in the old £/s/d system! You could have a lot of fun with the nicknames.
Out of 11 minutes 8 minutes discussed only about us and Britain.... Bravo👏👏
Swede here just to state that not all currencies have a pictograph representing them as the Swedish Krona for example does not. It is however often shortened to "Kr." or "Kr".
Sometimes people think ":-" is a symbol for the Krona, but it is not. It simply indicated the positional notation heading into the sub-currency Öre (of which there are 100 per Krona); it literally just means "no öre" - X SEK, fat.
Interesting video beyond that; the explanation for the Dollar, and thereby Daler was very interesting and informative.
There is an exception, in spain, before the euro was used, we used the "peseta" (from the catalan "peça", that means "piece"), the "peseta" hadn't a simbol, we just used an avrebiation, we said "160 psta."
The Swedish krona came to life in the 1873 reform. Swedish old currencies: penning (from the 11:th century to 1776, when it was totally abollished), mark in various forms( namley mark, kopparmark, pråglad mark. Only the last one was officially a currencie for use. The other ones was more of a helper for counting. Disapeared in 1776). Öre was from the start meant to be a helper for counting, but was embossed between 1522 and 1776, whereafter it disapeared. It made a comeback in 1855, and are stil with us today in the name. Örtugg was 1/24 mark or 1/3 öre. Was used from something like 1360 onwards. Daler was made in 1534. 1604 it was renamed riksdaler. In the 1766 reform was everything except the Daler scraped, and they made Skilling, in name that is. The coin itself was made from 1802 (or something like that). I think 48 Skilling was 1 Daler. In 1855 they started to use the decimal system for currency instead of the older system. From then 1 Daler=100 öre. In 1873, Sweden, Denmark and Norway got Krona as currencie.
The Swedish National Bank started in 1668, and are possibly the worlds oldest National Bank.
I'd like to see a video about the names of old currencies, like marks, lira, drachma, guilders, and so on.