[Allen Tice]

Chris, your reply is exactly what I needed. If fits everything I know and arranges it better than I have in the past. Whether this little sentence ever sees the light of day in context or not, I appreciate your time and effort. Thank you. I plan to save this and possible following posts for reference, and suggest anyone else who is interested do the same.

Thanks!

[Allen Tice]

Somewhere I read that traces of this nasalization appear in modern Portuguese.

Thoughts, anyone?

[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Allen

I was thinking that the -o in do would also be elided in your sentence, so perhaps you'd rather use dabo or dono.

Duncan

[Michael Cantor]

Originally Posted by Allen Tice

Somewhere I read that traces of this nasalization appear in modern Portuguese.

Thoughts, anyone?

There is a very slight but definite nasalization in Portugese evident in words like nao ("no") and names like Joao - or at least in the Brazilian Portugese I spoke at one time - but I couldn't begin to tell you more than that. You might try to run this past Sergio Lima, who posts actively on Non-Met, and is a Brazilian native.

[Allen Tice]

Dabo it is, at least for now. Thanks. Good thinking.