"The rupee is the currency of many places including but not limited to, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Hyrule."

@Omar_ayach

4 жыл бұрын

And...?

@KvaGram

4 жыл бұрын

@@Omar_ayach The joke is that a fictional place was included in the list.

@ludwig4890

4 жыл бұрын

Your name speaks for your profile picture

@wacesferpit

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, it's not wrong

@MohammedAli-hl4mr

4 жыл бұрын

@@TaterVG seriously?

The Spanish word peso also means weight.

@commenturthegreat2915

4 жыл бұрын

Also the Shekel in Hebrew is derived from the same root as weight. Interesting.

@RobertovBJJ

4 жыл бұрын

And pound means weight Atleast in America

@biscoito1r

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@cappuccinocoffee9734

4 жыл бұрын

And then theres dollar

@jasongarfitt1147

4 жыл бұрын

Is the old Spanish peseta from the same root?

Corona means crown KZread: DEMONITIZED!

@TheBushcamper9000

4 жыл бұрын

Also KZread: Jk

@JamesTheFoxeArt

4 жыл бұрын

Also KZread: Unless...

@Yadobler

4 жыл бұрын

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

@growingup15

4 жыл бұрын

@@Yadobler oh I know and many people know. But KZread 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

@bringbackthedislikecount6767

4 жыл бұрын

In Chinese corona virus literally translated to crown shaped virus

Minor correction: the currency is called KRONE with E in Norway too, not just Denmark.

@curom6593

4 жыл бұрын

Was about to point that out myself, it's a very minor thing at least

@JohanJohanssonxllv

4 жыл бұрын

Sweden as well

@bjornmu

4 жыл бұрын

@@JohanJohanssonxllv Eh, no? I just double-checked with a coin, it says EN KRONA. As I thought.

@rawovunlapin8201

4 жыл бұрын

@@JohanJohanssonxllv to beat a dead horse: no, it's spelled with an "a"

@spacesatan5840

4 жыл бұрын

We also have fish on our papper money

"Wait, You mean everyone didn't use US Dollar everywhere?" Say my Aunt, who once try to paid food in Paris with US money

@joshuahawkes7218

4 жыл бұрын

As a shop worker, I can relate on many levels, also no £50 notes accepted before 2pm.

@SpadePyro

3 жыл бұрын

Foxtrot707 really? Why not?

@samtremblaybelzile

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@SantomPh

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuahawkes7218 even if the transaction is £45 and above?

@joshuahawkes7218

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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".

@rafalch5530

4 жыл бұрын

Złoty translates more to 'Golden' Yes Im Polish too

@franzfanz

4 жыл бұрын

New Caledonia still uses the Franc as well.

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

Comoros also uses Franc.

@SFSAtlas

4 жыл бұрын

You can also say złot which is a plural property word for złote (gold) YES I'm polish

@kosakos1999

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think any currency still in circulation now adopts the gold/silver standard.

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.

@bochijaramillo5708

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@Lobosatirico

4 жыл бұрын

@@bochijaramillo5708 Si, es como decir "Buck", exactamente.

@bochijaramillo5708

4 жыл бұрын

Eduardo Arango gracias por aclarlo!

@carllarsen

3 жыл бұрын

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.

“Pieces of 8” in spanish is actually “Pedazos de Ocho”.... I don’t know where you got that from. The word “Peso” means “Weight”

@Suite_annamite

4 жыл бұрын

It's also a "piece", as in a "whole unit", as opposed to a part.

@AD_RC

2 жыл бұрын

peso de a 8 is something real, the peso was subdivided in 8 something elses

@a2falcone

2 ай бұрын

It was called peso de 8, real de 8, peso duro or peso fuerte.

@baraxor

2 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@-gemberkoekje-5547

4 жыл бұрын

In Dutch it just means side.

@thelonegunman2622

4 жыл бұрын

-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.

@jjc5475

4 жыл бұрын

witwatersrand means white water's edge/side in dutch. in afrikaans too i assume?

@carllarsen

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Barc112

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

8:30, sidenote: Russian minor coins (=.01 Ruble) depicted St. George slaying the dragon with spear (kopyo). Hence Kopeyka.

@FedulAis

4 жыл бұрын

We also have west slav's "groshu", but it mean trifle. Additionaly word "dengi"-money probably borrowed from turkic nomads.

@StamfordBridge

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. I didn’t know that!

@StamfordBridge

4 жыл бұрын

Федулов Айсен Den’gi is a Mongol word.

@UnQuacker

4 жыл бұрын

@@StamfordBridge turkic

@StamfordBridge

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Penny could come from the German "pfennig", which was their denotation of 1/100 of a mark

@suwinkhamchaiwong8382

4 жыл бұрын

I recognized that word from TNOmod soundtrack

@hugo57k91

4 жыл бұрын

That spelling Germans choose is gosh. Just write fening

@frankendragon5442

4 жыл бұрын

@@hugo57k91 You could spell it that way, but you would be wrong. The "p" is pronounced.

@hugo57k91

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankendragon5442 I mean we call them fenings here in Bosnia. It's the same thing. That's what I meant with that comment

@AndrewGeierMelons

4 жыл бұрын

Pfennig works, but so does pence (1/100th of a pound) becoming penny.

Patrick: We talk about currencies a lot Swiss people: Aight Imma head out

@wannabehistorian371

4 жыл бұрын

Robin I don’t get it.

@sarreqteryx

4 жыл бұрын

the Swiss have Francs...

@robezy0

4 жыл бұрын

@@wannabehistorian371 Swiss people don't like talking about money

@sku111ine

4 жыл бұрын

@@robezy0 its the gold question, isn't it?

@SpadePyro

3 жыл бұрын

When you get rid of all that Nazi gold, then we’ll talk

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.

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve used Yen and Dollars

@parabolaaaaa4919

4 жыл бұрын

pound and euro

@xepiconex

4 жыл бұрын

AU dollars and US dollar.

@frallan874

4 жыл бұрын

Euro in multiple countries and Swedish krona (SEK) cause well, I live there

@chakravartinarya269

4 жыл бұрын

Just Rupees cuz im a legend of zelda character.(also im indian)

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?

@MPhussarW

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for writing the name origin of złoty as i definitely wouldn't

@Desertfox18

Жыл бұрын

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".

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.

@allanrichardson1468

4 жыл бұрын

And before independence, the British pound.

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.

@smferreiro2610

2 ай бұрын

It was an internal accounting currency, with no notes, nor coins minted, until the Cruzado blew off, and a new currency was needed!

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').

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

Such as quid in Ireland, carried over from the Irish pound

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.

@dulcimerrafi

4 жыл бұрын

This is also the origin of the florin.

@rivenoak

4 жыл бұрын

"golden flower" then and btw flower of Florence is a lily

I'm so early, the Canadian penny is still a thing

@suwinkhamchaiwong8382

4 жыл бұрын

the Canadian what

@LeadMuncher09

4 жыл бұрын

@@suwinkhamchaiwong8382 Canada stopped using pennies a few years ago :p

@benawesomebw1197

4 жыл бұрын

LeadMuncher09 I still have a huge bucket of them. Waiting 70 years for when they become rare.

@Obviary

4 жыл бұрын

Do you mean "Last time I was this early, the Canadian penny was still a thing"?

@Thatmemertho

4 жыл бұрын

@@Obviary Nope

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.

@brokenursa9986

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@PuzzledMonkey

4 жыл бұрын

@@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 $.

@brokenursa9986

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@caracaes

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@BubbaJ18

4 жыл бұрын

Good job bringing politics into this

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

@babyinuyasha

4 жыл бұрын

Funny how it means "gold" but in the 20th century they were made from silver

@ArmLegLegArmHead47

4 жыл бұрын

In German there is also the word "Taler"!

@jjc5475

4 жыл бұрын

i think it comes from gelden. which means to pay. and not goud or gouden. both words are different even in old germanic!

@Jan_Koopman

4 жыл бұрын

@@jjc5475, 'gulden' is wel degelijk ouderwets Nederlands voor 'gouden' (denk maar aan 'het gulden vlies')

@elricthebald870

4 жыл бұрын

@@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 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!

@ArcanisUrriah

4 жыл бұрын

The £ sign evolved from Pound, which still is abbreviated to lb/Lb, so yes, it came from the letter L. :)

@Mkspokes

3 жыл бұрын

ArcanisUrriah and it comes from libra :)

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

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

"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.

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."

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.

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

@MrCubFan415

4 жыл бұрын

baddcat Italy’s former currency was also called lira

@FabioZpt

4 жыл бұрын

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).

@janpeternelj2309

4 жыл бұрын

Also sign for pound is an italic L and it stands for libra.

@connormcguigan7322

4 жыл бұрын

Livre is also how the French refer to the pound. Interesting.

@BertGrink

4 жыл бұрын

@@janpeternelj2309 The symbol for the British Pound is £ which has the same root.

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.

@AlicornHana

Жыл бұрын

Well, money does have spikey edges and silver can make scissors sharp

“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...

@5roundsrapid263

4 жыл бұрын

I knew he’d say Hyrule...

@Chad_Eldridge

4 жыл бұрын

That begs the question: WHY did they choose the name Rupee for the currency in Zelda games?

@Tailikku1

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@adityaguru6654

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@jaycee330

3 ай бұрын

Hence the chant which begins: "two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar..." as all Floridians will know.

@erinbutler2892

3 ай бұрын

@@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-)

@jaycee330

3 ай бұрын

@@erinbutler2892 Look up "Mr Two Bits"

I'm glad you remembered to add the Loonie and the Twoonie.

This video made a lot of cents! I'll see myself out

@littletimelord2755

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

"and Hyrule"

@micahrobbins8353

4 жыл бұрын

I wasn’t ready for that lol

@LunaBari

4 жыл бұрын

But Hyrule is a fictional world.

@t6amygdala

4 жыл бұрын

Aksana_Belarus what if... he was making a joke

@nirutivan9811

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@ghostchris519

4 жыл бұрын

Nirutivan 98 yet it shows a picture a fucking game? You didn’t think anyone would catch you on this didn’t you.

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.

Money, money, money must be funny in a rich man's world

@5roundsrapid263

4 жыл бұрын

The video for the song actually shows a Swedish Kroner.

@MrCubFan415

4 жыл бұрын

7/4 time signature :) edit: nvm, I was thinking of “Money” by Pink Floyd lol

@Claro1993

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the World funny in the Lyric was honey.

@Badinjava

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrCubFan415 Wait wasn't pink floyd's money in 7/8?

@BertGrink

4 жыл бұрын

"Money makes the World go around, the World go around, the World go around, It makes the World go 'round" _Liza Minelli in Cabaret_

You always make videos on such interesting topics that I've never even realized how interesting they actually are! Keep up the good work :)

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!

@tantus79

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't the Czech word for paper tissues also derived from this one?

@koubl

4 жыл бұрын

@@tantus79 exactly, "kapesné"

@darkwolfcz434

2 жыл бұрын

@@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'?

@jubbetje4278

4 жыл бұрын

yes

@jwhite5008

4 жыл бұрын

A-SIA

Abba is a gift to the world and I’m glad you know it

@frallan874

4 жыл бұрын

Sweden ftw

@richorichards4655

4 жыл бұрын

The Swedish Beatles I call em

Congrats on this video. You're rock! What part of UK are you come from? Your accent is quite interesting.

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

Glad Hyrule got a shout-out toward it's currency.

Out of 11 minutes 8 minutes discussed only about us and Britain.... Bravo👏👏

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!

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.

@angeloreyes1951

4 жыл бұрын

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 )

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.

@bosnianseparatist1174

4 жыл бұрын

In Bulgaria we use Lev(s) which also means Lion(s) and it refers to the lion being symbol of power

@user-ww5mr5fw1x

4 жыл бұрын

In Spain we say "perras (dogs)" and it comes from a lion that looked a dog

Thank you for the video. Very interesting. Happy to see Rand made the list!

The 2.5 gulders piece used to be called a daalder. With the dollar backstory I now know why. Thanks man.

"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

7:48 "Echo" is not a word in Spanish, I think you mean "Ocho" (Eight)

@yesid17

4 жыл бұрын

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')

@taisgrim

4 жыл бұрын

@@yesid17 sjskfkd me había olvidado jaj, es que en mí país no se usa mucho.

@sojourner_303

4 жыл бұрын

@@yesid17 makes sense etymologically, because when sound echoes, it's kind of like the wall throwing it back to you.

@generalkenobi2466

2 жыл бұрын

"Is there an Echo in here?"

@AD_RC

2 жыл бұрын

@@sojourner_303 not the same thing bud

"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).

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.

Fun fact: polish złoty is, if I remember correctly, the last name of currency that is somehow related to gold.

@tymekmika6698

4 жыл бұрын

It exactly means gold in polish

@jobda1211

4 жыл бұрын

@@tymekmika6698 Rather golden, because gold is złoto

@Dragoneye2828

4 жыл бұрын

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!

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

Though öre/øre which are the 1/100th subdivision of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian kroner also come from aurum, the Latin word for gold.

@jobda1211

4 жыл бұрын

@@seneca983 oh, really, it's my fault, I thought that øre were taken down, but apparently 50 øre still exists

In Costa Rica we use the Colón ₡, named after Christopher Columbus (which in Spanish is called Cristóbal Colón).

@Suite_annamite

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

@Suite_annamite

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

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.

@pedromenchik1961

4 жыл бұрын

Brazilian currency is also called "real", plural "reais". Symbol is R$

@AramatiPaz

4 жыл бұрын

I bet it's a common name.

@Suite_annamite

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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 ;)

In Germany we also sometimes refer to money as "Kohle" which means coal. Makes sense if you think about it.

@Markus_Abrach

4 жыл бұрын

Please don't burn your money. Take it and safe it

I live in Aruba . We use the Florin 🤗

@ostfabrorn2718

4 жыл бұрын

This freakin Guy and sometimes say guilders instead

@moomoomoo33ass

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Hamilton 👍🏼

I got some money from a guy in Ireland and he called the Euros "Yo yos." Dont know how widespread that is.

@ThatGirlWithTheCoffee

4 жыл бұрын

Chimeradave Common enough in the Capital, not so sure about outside of that

Support comment :D By the way, keep up the good work your videos are amazing.

RAND user here. I never knew how the naming of our currency got to be such but now I know. Thanks

The easiest one: złoty, polish currency, which literally means golden

other Words used from germans for Money: Asche, Bares, Flocken, Kohle, Knete, Kies, Kröten, Lappen, Mäuse, Moos...

@Serenity_yt

4 жыл бұрын

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

@DatAlien

4 жыл бұрын

Moneten

@user-fr3us1vi8o

4 жыл бұрын

That's a lot of names xd

@gerritlenhard1542

4 жыл бұрын

I think in Berlin they use the term Pinke-Pinke for money as well. Whatever that means.

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.

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.

I personally spell it "twoonie" - since it's a two dollar coin . . .

It would be nice to know about old currencies, like here in finland we used to have marks(markka) like in germany.

@richardholmquist7316

4 жыл бұрын

'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.

@SWLinPHX

4 жыл бұрын

@@richardholmquist7316 Deutsch Mark

@laurelelasselin

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardholmquist7316 To refer to Rohan - the Riddermark. I think.

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.

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!!!

Here in U.S.A. we use "Samoleon."

@bochijaramillo5708

4 жыл бұрын

What?

@StatsJedi

4 жыл бұрын

I wondered if anyone else was going to think of that. Would like to see the etymology of this one! Simolean.

@TentoesMe

4 жыл бұрын

@@bochijaramillo5708 Nickname for the US dollar.

@jaycee330

3 ай бұрын

@@StatsJedi Portmanteau of "simon" (Br. slang of sixpence) and "Napoleon". The term originated in New Orleans.

Pound: 1. a unit of weight 2. a currency 3. to hit with something (similar to "pounce") 4. a pet shelter Batman: 1. a superhero 2. a city Cricket: 1. a sport 2. an insect 3. an mobile phone service company Griffin: 1. a surname 2. a mythological creature Iris: 1. a part of the eye 2. a flower Kappa: 1. a Greek letter 2. a mythological creature

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.

Does the word "capsule" come from capsa too?

@jaycee330

3 ай бұрын

Yep, by way of the French (little box). And similar meanings of "encapsulate" (to put in a box), and the word "cap" itself.

"every currency has its own symbol" *sad Serbian Dinar noises*

@Claro1993

4 жыл бұрын

LemonGamer SOme currency symbols however is usually a two to three letter abbreviation of their name.

@sponge1234ify

4 жыл бұрын

*cries in rp and rm*

@raakone

4 жыл бұрын

The Indian Rupee only got its symbol relatively recently. Surely something can be thought of for the Serbian Dinar!

I was really hoping you would say Hyrule when talking about Rupees. You didn't let me down!

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.

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.

@LucasBenderChannel

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@tishafeed8085

4 жыл бұрын

@@LucasBenderChannel many banknotes are made with cloth and paper

@nvdawahyaify

4 жыл бұрын

The U.S. dollar is made of 60% cotton and 40% linen(flax).

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

In many places, the paper in paper money is made from cotton fiber, not wood fiber.

The Vietnamese Dong: I'm I a joke to you?

@talknight2

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Yes you are.

@Suite_annamite

4 жыл бұрын

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!

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)

Thank you for acknowledging a wonderful gift to our world- ABBA.

Witwatersrand is not the name of a city, It's the Afrikaans word for ridge

Mandatory comment for the youtube algorithm, move along.

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

You gonna get a lot of money for this money video. I've seen two stock exchange commercials already. 😜

Last time I was this early, these jokes were funny.

Kronavirus

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

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.

@Desertfox18

Жыл бұрын

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.

Love your videos!!!!

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.

@wanderpanzer9038

3 жыл бұрын

Hong Kong Dollar and Taiwan Dollar are still described "圓" in local traditional Chinese. Hence, the currencies of East Asia are all "Round".

I'd like to see a video about the names of old currencies, like marks, lira, drachma, guilders, and so on.

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.

Nicknames for the € in Germany: Moneten, Kohle, Moos, Kies, Pulver, Mäuse, Koks, Knete, Zaster, ... There are many more. Even though we use them to describe the Euro at the moment, we would probably continue to use these words if a new currency was to replace the euro

You really should do more parts! :D

Gold was a world currency a century ago. Different countries may have had different names but they were just different weight of gold and could be used interchangebly.

Back in the golden age of piracy, you had "Reales" which was the main currency of Spain. 16 Reales was equal to 1 gold Escudo which was around 3.4 grams of 22-carat gold. 2 Escudos was known as a doubloon