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The Portuguese word né is a contraction of não é. I cannot find any dating for when this contraction first appears, but we do know that Portuguese não is from Old Galician-Portuguese non, which was still attested in that form in the 1200s, some four or five centuries later than the Japanese term's first appearance.
shorts (as used in modern Portuguese), breeches (as used in the Portuguese of the 1600s) kasutera, kasutēra, kasuteira: ja:カステラ: Kind of sponge cake [11] (Pão de) Castela (Pão de) Castela (Bread/cake of) Castile: Theories cite Portuguese castelo (castle) or the region of Castile (Castela in
abafadores - earmuffs/headphones; abençoado - blessed; aberta - opened; abraço - hug; absolutamente - absolutely; acabado - finished; acabar - to end; acalma - calm down
Historical map of the Portuguese language (Galaico-português) since the year 1,000. However, other languages that came into contact with it have also left their mark. In the thirteenth century, the lexicon of Portuguese had about 80% words of Latin origin and 20% of pre-Roman Gallaecian and Celtiberian, Germanic, Greek and Arabic origin. [1]
perhaps from Old Portuguese lingoa, today's língua, ("language", "tongue") related to Old Provençal lengo, lingo. Or perhaps, from Polari slang, ultimately from Italian lingua franca . Polari is a distinctive English argot in use since at least the 18th century among groups of theatrical and circus performers and in certain homosexual ...
Miguxês (Portuguese pronunciation: [miɡuˈʃes] or [miɣuˈʃeʃ]), also known in Portugal as pita talk or pita script (pronounced ), is an Internet slang of the Portuguese language that was popular in the 2000s and early 2010s among Brazilian teenagers on the Internet and other electronic media, such as messages written on cell phones.
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Influence of Portuguese vocabulary on Konkani language. Vikram Publications. ISBN 978-81-920574-6-0. Wherritt, Irene (December 1989). "Portuguese Loanwords in Konkani". Hispania. 72 (4): 873– 881. doi:10.2307/343565. JSTOR 343565. JSTOR 343565; Sardesai, Madhavi (2006). A comparative linguistic and cultural study of lexical influences on ...