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==Etymology== The name "Cavite" comes from the Hispanicized form of ''kawit'' (alternatively ''kalawit''), [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] for "hook", in reference to the [[Cavite Peninsula|small hook-shaped peninsula]] jutting out to [[Manila Bay]].<ref name="cav">[http://cavite.gov.ph/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=90 Official Website of the Provincial Government of Cavite β Cavite City] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301233846/http://cavite.gov.ph/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=90 |date=March 1, 2009}}</ref> The name originally applied to the peninsula, ''Cavite La Punta'' (now [[Cavite City]]) and the adjacent lowland coastal area of ''Cavite Viejo'' (now [[Kawit]], reverting to the original native spelling). The peninsula was also known in the pre-colonial era as ''Tangway'', from [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] for "peninsula".<ref name="Lesho">{{cite book |last1=Lesho |first1=Marivic |last2=Sippola |first2=Eeva |title=Vergleichende Kolonialtoponomastik Strukturen und Funktionen kolonialer Ortsbenennung |date=2018 |publisher=De Gruyter |chapter=Toponyms in Manila and Cavite, Philippines |isbn=9783110608618 |pages=317β332}}</ref> [[Edmund Roberts (diplomat)|Edmund Roberts]], in his 1821 memoir, stated that the "natives" called it ''Caveit'' due to the "crooked point of land extending into the sea".<ref name=Roberts1>{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=Edmund |title=Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7317/view/1/59/ |publisher=Harper & Brothers |location=New York |year=1837 |page=59}}</ref>
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