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Veranda

3 stages from Portuguese to English.

Today it means a covered porch or balcony, usually along the outside of a house
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Stage 1 of 3
varanda
Portuguese · 1500s
"a railed balcony"
a railed platform or balcony
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Stage 2 of 3
baramdā
Hindi · 1600s
"a covered porch"
adopted and reinforced through Portuguese colonial contact in India
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Stage 3 of 3
veranda
English · 1700s
"a covered porch along a building"
adopted through British colonial contact in India
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