Itajaí

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Portuguese Itajaí.

Proper noun[edit]

Itajaí

  1. A city and municipality of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
    • 2023 June 5, Yvonne Gordon, “Microplastics found in every sample of water taken during Ocean Race”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      The 45 samples collected from leg two, running from Cabo Verde to South Africa, showed microplastic concentrations from 92-1,884, while in leg three – between Cape Town and Itajaí, Brazil – the concentrations ranged from 160-1,492 per cubic metre.

Portuguese[edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

Multiple teories, from Old Tupi:

  • From taîá (“arum”) +‎ 'y (“river”).
  • From itá (“stone”) +‎ îá (“full”) +‎ 'y (“river”).[1]
  • From itá (“stone”) +‎ îara (“lord”) +‎ 'y (“river”).

From Guaraní:

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: I‧ta‧ja‧í

Proper noun[edit]

Itajaí

  1. Itajaí (a city and municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Itajaí”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 572, column 2
  2. ^ https://magru.com.br/web/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Lenda_do_monte_tayo.pdf
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