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With "total nonsense" I expected something like ZyAbct328 or some crap, like a name you can barely find to stay under the radar.
But Aylo? Wtf is The Verge doing?
Aylo is only "nonsense" because you're not used to it. What about Sony? Nike? Lego? Cisco? Adobe? ...
Just because I was curious: Sony comes from sonos, sound in Latin. Nike is the ~~Roman~~ Greek God of victory. Lego is is a Danish abreviation for "play well". Cisco comes from San Fransisco. Adobe is the name of a Creek near the founders house.
Of course they have origins, but that is pretty much true of any name. If I look up "Aylo" I find:
I can tell you the first one is total BS — there is no word in Portuguese that even sounds close to that one. Source: am a Portugal.
Adding to that as a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, no word I'm aware of comes even close to that one either. Our words don't really use Y like that to begin with.