Nheengatu

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pão. Displaced miapé.

    Noun

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    pãu (plural pãu-itá)

    1. bread (baked dough made from cereals)
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    References

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    • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “pãu”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 585