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Nheengatu
Etymology
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pão. Displaced miapé.
Noun
pãu (plural pãu-itá)
- bread (baked dough made from cereals)
References
- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “pãu”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 585