Pindamonhangaba
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi pindá (“fishhook”) + monhang (“to make”) + -ab (circumstantial suffix) + -a (nominal suffix), literally “place of making fishhooks”.[1]
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Pindamonhangaba
- A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Pindamonhangaba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 592, column 2