Borrowed fromPortugueseAbaetetuba.
Abaetetuba
- Acity inPará,Brazil.
The city was originally namedAbaeté, ultimately fromOld Tupiabaeté(“honorable man”). In 1943, the name was changed by the adition oftyba to avoid confusion with a homonymous city, thus creating the new compoundabaetetyba(“honorable men gathering”).[1][2]
- Rhymes:-ubɐ
- Hyphenation:A‧ba‧e‧te‧tu‧ba
Abaetetuba ?
- acity inPará,Brazil
- ^Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Abaetetuba”, inDicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global,→ISBN,page541, column 1
- ^“Abaetetuba”, inCidades@ (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: IBGE,2023
