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Antenor Nascentes
Antenor
de
Veras
Nascentes
was a
Brazilian
philologist
,
etymologist
, and
lexicographer
. He wrote the first
etymological dictionary
of
Brazil
. He also had an
interest
in
dialect
and
experimental phonetics
. He did
analysis
of
popular
speech
in
Rio de Janeiro
in
1922
. In
1962
he won the
Prêmio Machado de Assis
.
