Editing Alagoas (section)

==Etymology==
The [[Latin]] {{lang|la|lacus}}, "reservoir, lake" is the origin, in the primitive vocabulary heritage, of the [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], Spanish, and [[Italian language|Italian]] {{lang|pt|lago}},<ref name="ANDRADE">ANDRADE, Fernando Moretzsohn de; GUIMARÃES, André Passos. ALAGOAS. In: Enciclopédia Mirador Internacional. São Paulo: [[Encyclopædia Britannica]] do Brasil Publicações, 1993. v. 2, p. 258.</ref> [[French language|French]] {{lang|fr|lac}},<ref name="Entry">[http://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/definition/lac/ Verbete "Lac"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818071018/http://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/definition/lac/ |date=2011-08-18 }} Linternaute.com. Page visited on August 16, 2011.</ref> one of its derivatives, the [[Latin]] {{lang|la|lacuna}}, "pitfall, hole", "lack, want, neglect", explains the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Italian language|Italian]] {{lang|es|laguna}}.<ref name="Entry2">[http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltObtenerHtml?origen=RAE&LEMA=laguna&SUPIND=0&CAREXT=10000&NEDIC=No#laguna Entry "Laguna"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608134342/http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltObtenerHtml?origen=RAE&LEMA=laguna&SUPIND=0&CAREXT=10000&NEDIC=No |date=2011-06-08 }} Diccionario de la Lengua Española. Page visited on August 16, 2011.</ref><ref name="Entry3">[http://www.dizionario-italiano.it/definizione-lemma.php?definizione=laguna&lemma=L004CC00 Entry "Laguna"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722032036/http://www.dizionario-italiano.it/definizione-lemma.php?definizione=laguna&lemma=L004CC00 |date=2011-07-22 }}. Dizionario Italiano. Page visited on August 16, 2011.</ref> But the Portuguese {{lang|pt|lagoa}},<ref name="ANDRADE" /> coincidentally with the Spanish {{lang|es|lagona}} and [[Mirandese language|Mirandese]] {{lang|mwl|llagona}}, suggests a change in suffix,<ref name="Entry4">[http://www.mirandadodouro.com/dicionario/traducao-mirandes-portugues/lhagona/ Entry "Lhagona"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714101338/http://www.mirandadodouro.com/dicionario/traducao-mirandes-portugues/lhagona/ |date=2011-07-14 }} Dicionário da Língua Mirandesa. Page visited on August 16, 2011.</ref> already documented in a 938 document from [[Valencia, Spain|Valencia]], under the spelling {{lang|pt|lacona}},<ref name="ANDRADE" /> and in another from 1094, in [[Sahagún, Spain|Sahagún]], under the spelling {{lang|pt|lagona}}.<ref name="ANDRADE" />

The Portuguese {{lang|pt|lagoa}} under the spelling {{lang|pt|lagona}} (perhaps {{lang|pt|lagõna}}), is documented in the 14th century,<ref name="ANDRADE" /> and alternated with the other for a long time; the [[Prosthesis (linguistics)|prosthesis]] is then explained by the introduction of the article, chiefly in locution ({{lang|pt|na lagoa}}, {{lang|pt|vindo da lagoa}}) (''in the lake'', ''coming from the lake''),<ref name="ANDRADE" /> and for [[Morphology (linguistics)|morphologic]] regularization with the derivatives of the verb {{lang|pt|alagar}} (''to inundate'') ({{lang|pt|alagadiço}}, {{lang|pt|alagado}}, {{lang|pt|alagador}}, {{lang|pt|alagamento}}, etc.) (''swampish, waterlogged, flooding, overflow'', etc.).<ref name="ANDRADE" />

The name appears as a competitor with the names of the lagoons of [[Manguaba Lagoon|Manguaba]], {{lang|pt|a lagoa do sul}} ("the southern lagoon"), and [[Mundaú Lagoon|Mundaú]], {{lang|pt|a lagoa do norte}} ("the northern lagoon"), already in the 16th century, when settlements were founded near the Alagoa do Norte and the Alagoa do Sul, the Alagoas, with the inclusion of the rest of the lagoons in the area.<ref name="Porquealagoas">[http://www.gabinetecivil.al.gov.br/alagoas/porque-alagoas-1 Why Alagoas?] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120802235427/http://www.gabinetecivil.al.gov.br/alagoas/porque-alagoas-1 |date=2012-08-02 }} Official site of the Civil Cabinet of the State of Alagoas. Pageg visited on August 16, 2011.</ref>

The suffix {{lang|pt|-ano}} is characteristic of Brazil: {{lang|pt|[[Paraíba|paraibano]]}}, {{lang|pt|[[Pernambuco|pernambucano]]}}, {{lang|pt|alagoano}}, {{lang|pt|[[Sergipe|sergipano]]}}, {{lang|pt|[[Bahia|baiano]]}}, {{lang|pt|[[Goiás|goiano]]}}, and later {{lang|pt|[[Acre (state)|acriano]]}}.<ref name="ANDRADE" />