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Re: Language naming terminology

From:Gustavo Eulalio <guga@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 22, 1998, 16:56
On: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:48:26 -0300
Pablo Flores wrote:
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> >I don't know where Peru or Chile came from. > I think I read somewhere that Chile comes from Araucano (or some other > Indian language) _chiri_, 'cold'. And Peru from _biru_ (another native > word, but I don't know what it means).
I read somewhere else that Chile is from "cilli", which means "where the earth ends".
> You didn't mention Brazil and Argentina. 'Brasil' comes from the same root > as 'brasa' (lit piece of coal, burnt wood reduced to carbon; what's the > English word?). Apparently there was a tree which produced a flaming red > tint or something like that, so it was called 'palo brasil', hence the name > given to the whole country.
"Pau-brasil", in portugese. "Brasil" means "live-ash(?) colored". -- ________ Gustavo Eulalio M. Cabral | ______| ,----------------------------------. | | ____ | "My language is my homeland" |` | | |__ | | Fernando Pessoa, Portugese poet || | | __| | `----------------------------------'| |_| |____| `----------------------------------' e mail : g.eu@i.am Homepage: http://i.am/g.eu/ /"\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \