| | :I got it from here: http://www.infopedia.pt/pesquisa-global/favela. I guess they were basing it on the fact that those neighborhoods resemble honeycombs somehow? But after reading up more on it, English dictionaries list it as being derived from the tree, and that's what Wikipedia also says, about how the hill with the favelas was named after a hill with the tree. It may be the more accurate etymology actually. Maybe we should have it as being either from this or the other? [[User:Word dewd544|Word dewd544]] 05:19, 29 January 2012 (UTC) | | :I got it from here: http://www.infopedia.pt/pesquisa-global/favela. I guess they were basing it on the fact that those neighborhoods resemble honeycombs somehow? But after reading up more on it, English dictionaries list it as being derived from the tree, and that's what Wikipedia also says, about how the hill with the favelas was named after a hill with the tree. It may be the more accurate etymology actually. Maybe we should have it as being either from this or the other? [[User:Word dewd544|Word dewd544]] 05:19, 29 January 2012 (UTC) |
| | + | ::I see. I'm more confident it's named after the tree; in fact, the Brazilian History Channel airs some short videos by writer Eduardo Bueno during breaks, one of which explains the origin of this word (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRLjb0pFy1w). But since that site mentions favo + ela I think we can leave it too. [[User:Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV|Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV]] 05:39, 29 January 2012 (UTC) |
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