1200s

Portuguese words first recorded in the 13th century

1 Portuguese word whose earliest known written record dates from the 13th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

1. água

   1266

   It is inherited from Latin aqua (“water”), written Old Galician-Portuguese agua in the oldest texts. The Latin /kʷ/ between vowels was voiced to /ɡʷ/, as Vieira put it in 1871: “the q goes down to…

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