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 Behind the Name: Portuguese Names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Portuguese names are used in Portugal, Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking regions.
Portuguese given names are often taken from the names of saints.
Some of these, for example Dores and Neves, are taken from titles of Mary, while others such as Assunção and Inmaculada refer to events in her life.
www.behindthename.com /glossary/view.php?title=portuguese_names   (118 words)

  
 Given name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A given name is a name which specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name.
Names of unknown or disputed etymology, for example Mary[9].
Names which are currently in fashion tend to be varied the most.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Given_name   (2607 words)

  
 Japanese Formal Masculine Given Names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The yobina and nanori are both given names; the nanori was more formal, the yobina the common use name, typically used only by family or intimate acquaintances.
In some cases, more than one Japanese name transliterates to the same representation in our alphabet; the number of duplicates is given after the name.
Names are sorted first by the first Roman character of a name's transliteration, and then according to the first character, or mora, in the name.
www.s-gabriel.org /names/solveig/nanori   (430 words)

  
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Given the historical nature of this book, I would want us to reach to as many people as possible.
With all the Portuguese Fraternals holding their conventions during the next few months, it would rather helpful to our sales outreach to have you volunteer to man a table.
Portuguese Heritage Publications can and will only be as good as your input and commitment to the cause of researching and disseminating the Portuguese experience in California.
www.portuguesebooks.org /news.html   (1595 words)

  
 Portuguese Names from the 16th Century: Letters from the Court of King John III
Reflecting the close relationship between Portugal and Spain, Portuguese names in the sixteenth century were quite similar to Spanish names, though distinctly Portuguese forms were evident.
Portuguese names were roughly similar in complexity to Spanish names at the same time: no one mentioned here had a second given (middle) name, and only 15% have a surname with two elements.
A complete list of all men's names as they appear in the letters is also available.
www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/names/portugal16.htm   (974 words)

  
 CNN.com - U.S. watch list has 'taken on life of its own,' FBI says - Nov. 20, 2002
The FBI said the list was not a list of suspects, but people whom agents wanted to talk to.
After the attacks, the list was expanded to include people who weren't suspects but were sought for interviews or under suspicion by authorities, and its distribution was expanded.
The list was given to FBI field offices, and officials then used their discretion in distributing the list.
archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/11/19/fbi.watch.list   (621 words)

  
 TORRY ADVISORY NOTE No. 96 Fish names in the European Community
The list includes the important commercial species caught in the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean: the criterion for inclusion is that at least 1000 tonnes of the species are caught in this area.
Alternative scientific names are listed but, where the English name includes more than one species or more than one group of species, these are indicated by a † sign.
Lists the scientific, English and foreign names of about 100 commercial species of marine and freshwater fish and shellfish caught in the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean most likely to be met when trading in the European Community.
www.fao.org /wairdocs/tan/x5994e/x5994e00.htm   (458 words)

  
 pronunciationguide.org: Portuguese
Portuguese shares some idiosyncracies with French, and to anyone unfamiliar with the vocabulary of Romance languages, it's equally likely to sound like Russian.
The most distinguishing feature of Portuguese spelling is the use of tildes on vowels (ã), which indicates nasalization.
Most Portuguese diphthongs follow the same very logical pattern that is followed by Spanish and Italian.
www.math.nyu.edu /~wendlc/pronunciation/Portuguese.html   (597 words)

  
 Behind the Name: Portuguese Names
The names listed here are used in Portugal, Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking areas.
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese form of the Roman name Felicianus, which was itself derived from the Roman name FELIX.
Portuguese form of the Roman cognomen Glaucia, which was derived from Latin glaucus "bluish grey".
www.behindthename.com /nmc/por.php   (528 words)

  
 P.A.H.R. Foundation -- Genealogy - History - Email
The Appendix C list mentioned three Almeidas, and as the P.A.H.R.F knows Almeida is a town in northern Portugal and is a name common among Sephardic Jews; I have long suspected a correlation between Almeida and Almada, a town in central Portugal, but in my ongoing research I have yet to find any connection.
My vovo's maiden name was Andrade, she was born in Cuvo (sp?), but her father was an illegitimate child and we have yet to learn whether the Andrade name was HIS mother's maiden name or his father's name.
It is definitely a Portuguese name and of a famous Portuguese of the 19th century of a noble family.
www.portuguesefoundation.org /genealogy.htm   (14604 words)

  
 First Names and Last Names in Porutuguese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is not uncommon that a married woman has two given names and six surnames, the last two coming from her husband.
In fact Portuguese law does not allow the registration of a child with a name that is not Portuguese.
Names of animals are common--Carneiro, Lobo, Cabrita, and Coelho--as well as names of trees--Carvalho, Pereira, Nogueira, and Oliveira.
www.portcult.com /10.LANG4_names.htm   (915 words)

  
 Miscellaneous Medieval Name Articles
Names in the 1319 Subsidy Roll of London
Masculine/feminine given name pairs from the 1427 Catasto of Florence
Catalan Names from the 1510 census of Valencia
www.ellipsis.cx /~liana/names/names.html   (284 words)

  
 P.A.H.R. Foundation -- Our Mission
The Portuguese people are one the oldest European group of settlers, probably the first to arrive in this continent and permanently settle among the natives in a peaceful manner.
This has given him considerable knowledge of the different groups of people with whom the Portuguese have integrated.
The Portuguese-American Historical and Research Foundation is a publicly supported educational organization under IRS 509 (a) (2), and approved by the Internal Revenue Code to operate as described in section 501 (c) (3).
www.portuguesefoundation.org /preview.htm   (545 words)

  
 São Miguel - Portuguese Genealogist Master List
His wife is listed as Mary Medeiros, daughter of Antonio Medeiros, although she is listed as Maria De Silva on her daughter's birth cert.
She once mention that she left Portugal when she were 12 yrs old, her maiden name Raposa, 1st name Virginia, she came to Hawaii on a store-a-way and married a John Baker he was 40 something, I heard she was 12.
Maria Adelina's maiden name was Moniz, or Moneze or Monez.
www.dholmes.com /master-list/azores/smiguel.html   (8443 words)

  
 Names in Portugal
Portuguese men's names in the early 15th century--as mentioned by medieval chronicler Fernão Lopes.
Usually the first in the list is the first name, the rest [as many as five or six, although not usually all set out on business cards etc] are family names.
The very last name is usually the last names for the purpose of addressing a person.
www.portcult.com /Portugal.05.NAMES.htm   (901 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 2.804: Names
With reference to John Limber's query on whether names exhibit syntactic peculiarities in any languages: in the southern dialects of the Western Desert Language, Australia (Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara etc.) names have the suffix -nya in the S (intransitive subject) and O (transitive direct object) forms, and the ergative -lu in the A (transitive subject) form.
In Portuguese the same set of articles as with common nouns is used; thus, we have: (1) a.
Of course, given this double life that languages with an Academia live, these constructions sound perfectly good both with the article and without it, which basically means that we will probably always supply an article when speaking, but we will never write such a thing.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/2/2-804.html   (1613 words)

  
 The History Guy: The War List
War List Page Format: the format used for these lists is fairly simple.
If a conflict can be broken up into one or more component parts, the secondary wars are listed below the primary war and are indented to show they "belong" to it.
Goa had been a Portuguese colony for centuries prior to the Indian invasion of 1961.
www.historyguy.com /War_list.html   (3757 words)

  
 EXPERIMENTS
List poem 1: Write a poem consisting of favorite words or phrases collected over a period of time; pick your favorite words from a particular book.
List poem 2: write a poem consisting entirely of a list of "things", either homogenous or heterogeneous (common lists include shopping lists, things to do, lists of flowers or rocks, lists of colors, inventory lists, lists of events, lists of names,...).
Use any of these experiments that involve as source text as a way of reading through already existing poems; that is, as interactive tools for "creative reading." As an extention, study poems via the modes of "Deformative Criticism" (the term is from Jerome McGann and Lisa Samuel).
www.writing.upenn.edu /bernstein/experiments.html   (2922 words)

  
 PHP: mysql_list_fields - Manual
The name of the table that's being queried.
// Returns the name of the fields in the primary key for a table.
mysql_list_fields() retrieves information about the given table name but you can use something like mysql_fetch_field to retrieve the field names from a result source.
php.net /mysql_list_fields   (400 words)

  
 Choose Your Own Adventure
I have a feeling that the author's name is a pseudonym, but if it is, I have no idea what the author's real name is.
Library of Congress Summary: The reader, en route to the third planet from Altair to seek the source and meaning of extraterrestrial messages, is given choices to make determining the course of the spaceship and the survival of the crew.
When it comes time to transform, the choices never ask you specifically which animal you want to be, but instead give vague categories; this makes the book considerably more interesting than it could have been, since you never know what you're going to be next...
www.gamebooks.org /cyoalist.htm   (10798 words)

  
 Search OLAC Archives - Portuguese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
description:...ary is in Portuguese, English and one or both dialects of Atauro (Hahak or Baba).
Transcription of a Portuguese- Lovaia (Epulo) vocabulary by Manuel Perreira.
description: A page listing all resources on The LINGUIST List website which are relevant to this language or language family.
www.language-archives.org /tools/search/?query=Portuguese   (626 words)

  
 Girls Names - R
Girls Names starting with R- Displaying in alphabetical order from Raleigh to Rashida.
Raleigh (Old English) "Roe deer's meadow." Place name...
Ramsay (Old English) "Raven island; ram island." Place name that was originally a last name common in Scotland, and seldom used as a given name for boys.
www.thinkbabynames.com /list/0/R/1   (176 words)

  
 Portuguese language Biography,info
Its spread was helped by mixed marriages between Portuguese and local people, and by its association with Catholic missionary efforts, which led to the formation of a creole called cristão ("Christian") in many parts of Asia.
AULP - Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa Portuguese Language Universities Association.
Type any text with Portuguese characters - an online editor
music.musictnt.com /biography/sdmc_Portuguese_language   (4160 words)

  
 ISO 639-2 Language Code List - Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)
ISO 639-2 Language Code List - Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)
Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages
Where two codes are provided (22 languages total), the bibliographic code is given first and the terminology code is given second.
www.loc.gov /standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php   (132 words)

  
 Web Names Page Titles @ MyDNFS.com (My Domain Names for Sale)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Web site for her, so she doesn't know why the domain name was registered to the unusual address.
She says she has been unable to use certain names for herself...
Encyclopedia: List of Latin and Greek Words Commonly Used In Systematic Names
my-domain-names-for-sale.com /toc/web_names   (452 words)

  
 Portuguese Gastronomy -- A collection of home pages about Portugal
Portuguese Gastronomy -- A collection of home pages about Portugal
(an amazing list of Portuguese restaurants around the world; Crista has been assiduously collecting information on these restaurants for a few years and it shows; the list is broken out by countries such as Australia, Canada, France, Macau, USA, etc.)
(lists restaurants and other eating establishments that focus on vegetarian food; contains listings for the Algarve and Lisbon only)
www.well.com /user/ideamen/pcomida.html   (289 words)

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