Portuguese-based creole languages meaning "in" and/or "on", which would come from the Portuguese contraction "na" meaning "in the" (feminine singular). The Portuguese word for "creole" is "crioulo", which derives from the verb "criar" ("to raise", "to bring up") and a suffix "-oulo" of debated origin. Originally the word was used to distinguish the members of any ethnic group who were born and raised in the colonies from those who were born in their homeland. In Africa it was often applied to locally born people of (wholly or partly) Portuguese descent, as opposed to those born in Portugal; whereas in Brazil it was also
Folk etymology original French "chaise longue" ("long chair"), has come to be associated with the word "lounge". Rebracketing is a process of language change in which parts of a word that appear to be meaningful (such as *"ham" in "hamburger") are mistaken as elements of the word's etymology (in this case, the word "ham"). Rebracketing functions by reanalyzing the constituent parts of a word. For example, the Old French word "orenge" ("orange tree") comes from Arabic "an nāranj" ("the orange tree"), with the initial "n" of "nāranj" understood as part of the article. In back-formation a new word is created, often by