Editing Paraguay (section)

==Etymology==
The origin of the name Paraguay is uncertain. One version postulates the name takes from [[Guaraní language|Guaraní]] ''paraguá'' "feather crown" and ''y'' "water" thus ''paraguaí'' "feather crown of waters".<ref>{{citation|author=[[Antonio Ruiz de Montoya]]|entry=Paraguá|title=Vocabulario y tesoro de la lengua Guarani (ó mas bien Tupi)|volume=2|year=1876|page=263|url=http://archive.org/details/gramaticaydiccio02ruiz}}</ref> Other versions affirm that the name derives from the [[Payaguá|Payaguá people]],<ref name="auto"/> for the [[Paraguay River]] was called the ''Payaguá-y'', or "river of the Payaguás" by the [[Guaraní people|Guaraní]] and hence would have come the name for the country; or that, also from the Guaraní, ''para'' would mean sea, ''gua'', originates, and ''y'', river, thus Paraguay would mean "river which gives birth to the sea".<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Nickson|first1=Andrew R.|last2=Kolinski|first2=Charles J.|title=Historical Dictionary of Paraguay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=skV7AAAAMAAJ|publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]]|year=1993|isbn=9780810826434|access-date=20 October 2022|archive-date=20 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020212325/https://books.google.com.br/books/about/Historical_Dictionary_of_Paraguay.html?id=skV7AAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y|url-status=live}}</ref>