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Festa itself derives from festus which probably, according to etymologists, had the same root as feria fair.
Some of the words in my sampling may or may not be Hindi loanwords; that is, etymologists are uncertain whether they are properly attributable to Hindi or some other language of the subcontinent.
The predilection for the flesh of Strombus gigas, the queen conch, by the white Bahamians and their relatives on the Florida Keys is cited by many etymologists in explaining the origin of the appellation Conch for a `native or inhabitant of the Florida Keys' or a `Bahamian.
(In this article, Hindi is used to cover loanwords which etymologists attribute to either Hindi or Urdu.
There would appear to be no reason why the first of these defining factors cannot be applied equally well to verbs, a boycott and to boycott could be labelled hand-in-hand as eponymous noun and verb (poor Capt. Boycott having been forgotten by everyone except the etymologists and encyclopedists).