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[Surname] Areias?
How is Areias pronounced and is it in fact a Portuguese surname?
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It is Portuguese, from a Portuguese place name meaning "sands". Find out more here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areias_(Santo_Tirso)
How is it pronounced? Wrongly if I try to say it. Ah-reysh would be my attempt, which would probably raise a laugh in Portugal.
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