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Pesa means money in Swahili is well, as stated in the first line of the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pes
by square_usual 7y ago
Pesa means money in Swahili is well, as stated in the first line of the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
- davidw 7y agoWonder what the etymology is on that? Seems close to 'peso', but that wasn't really where the Spanish were hanging around, so maybe it's just a coincidence? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisa seems to indicate it's possibly from the Portuguese.
- toyg 7y ago> that wasn't really where the Spanish were hanging around For a while, Spanish currencies and conventions acted as reference for most of the trading world operating across oceans, regardless of Spanish presence. It was a bit like the modern USD.