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How to protect your sexuality in Brazil
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For that pair of words (ES año vs. PT ano) this works, but note the correspondence gets really messy, it depends on the etymology of the word. A quick run-down would be:
Then for Latin intervocalic /n/ Spanish simply keeps it. Portuguese initially converts it into vowel nasalisation, but then changes it further on, it's a bit messy:
For ES "ano" anus and PT "ânus" anus this doesn't work, though. Portuguese didn't inherit the word, but reborrowed it. And perhaps to avoid making it sound like "ano" (year), kept the Latin nominative ending. (If the word was inherited it would end as *ão or something like this.)