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Re: OT: Place name constituents

From:Antonielly Garcia Rodrigues <antonielly@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 14:25
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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