Re: OT: Place name constituents
| From: | Antonielly Garcia Rodrigues <antonielly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 14:25 |
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In Brazilian Portuguese, we have some recurring sufixes. I remember now of
the following: -lândia for countries, specially imaginary ones (from English
"land"), and -polis (from Greek, which means "city"). We also have -nia to
refer to places. For instance:
Disneylândia
Sumiçolândia
Anápolis
Goianápolis
Claudinápolis
Florianópolis
Petrópolis
Goiânia
Pomerânia
Ucrânia
Macedônia
Altônia
Chechênia
Antonielly Garcia Rodrigues
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