Nice one. Also a good amount of time, you still have a moment to think and if you are quick you can guess a couple, but you certainly can't rattle off all 50 in that time!
The name "California" derives from a fictional place in a Spanish chivalry novel from the 16th century, a kind of terrestrial paradise, ruled by the warrior queen Calafia.
It's well known in California's first capital, Loreto, BCS, MX that the novel mungomatic mentions ("Las sergas (adventures) de Esplandián" by Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo, around 1500) is the source of the name, California.
There's a spectacular mural here in city hall of her. Also used to be a mural in a museum in Sacramento that's now in Mark Hopkins hotel in SF. And for Disneyland Whoopi Goldberg narrated a short Disney movie about it that I cannot find anywhere.
I keep reading that the author came up with the name Calafia by feminizing the arabic word, caliph. So "female religious leader" could be the word origin.
From what I've heard the name of Queen Calafia comes from the Arabic work Khalifa meaning successor, ruler, or leader, basically meaning California's origin comes from the Khalifa.
The state's name appears to originate from an earlier Spanish name, Arizonac, derived from the O'odham name alĭ ṣonak, meaning "small spring", which initially applied only to an area near the silver mining camp of Planchas de Plata, Sonora. I always thought that it was Spanish.
I thought so too, but I looked it up and according to my source the Spanish explorers heard the name used by the Native American Caddo people which was "Teyshas" meaning friends or allies. They recorded it as Tejas or Teyas. (statesymbolsusa.org)
California takes its name from Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián), a popular XVI century chivalric romance by Garci [sic] Rodríguez de Montalvo. The Quijote, as an aside, was inspired by and in many ways engages the Sergas and the widely popular genre.
Per Wikipedia, the name of the queen of California, Calafia may come from the "Arabic word khalifa (religious state leader) which is known as caliph in English and califa in Spanish". It is known that Hernan Cortes and some of his men, who were the first Europeans to arrive in the southern part what became New Spain's province of California (now Baja California Sur) in 1534 and 1535, had read the book.
Also from Wikipedia,
It is not known who first named the area California .... the name California also appears in a 1542 journal kept by explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, who used it casually, as if it were already popular.
There's a spectacular mural here in city hall of her. Also used to be a mural in a museum in Sacramento that's now in Mark Hopkins hotel in SF. And for Disneyland Whoopi Goldberg narrated a short Disney movie about it that I cannot find anywhere.
I keep reading that the author came up with the name Calafia by feminizing the arabic word, caliph. So "female religious leader" could be the word origin.
Coloreado means colored.
Colorido means colorful.
https://dle.rae.es/colorado
https://dle.rae.es/colorear?m=form
https://dle.rae.es/colorido
Per Wikipedia, the name of the queen of California, Calafia may come from the "Arabic word khalifa (religious state leader) which is known as caliph in English and califa in Spanish". It is known that Hernan Cortes and some of his men, who were the first Europeans to arrive in the southern part what became New Spain's province of California (now Baja California Sur) in 1534 and 1535, had read the book.
Also from Wikipedia,
It is not known who first named the area California .... the name California also appears in a 1542 journal kept by explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, who used it casually, as if it were already popular.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_name_California
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calafia