Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Quechuan language of the Inca Empire, now widely spoken throughout the Andes highlands from southern Colombia to Chile.
- noun A member of a South American Indian people originally having been part of the Inca Empire.
- noun A member of a Quechuan-speaking people.
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- noun A member of one of several South American ethnic groups that spans
Peru ,Bolivia , northwesternArgentina , northernChile , and inEcuador and southernColombia . - proper noun The language spoken by these people.
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- noun the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas
- noun a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire
- noun a community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lawa = youngest child of Mwezi and Ng; after graduation works at ejida on Byli, then comes to work at ejida on Riesig; eventual partner of Qala (name means soup in Quechua)
Archive 2004-12-12 Maggie Jochild 2004
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Lawa = youngest child of Mwezi and Ng; after graduation works at ejida on Byli, then comes to work at ejida on Riesig; eventual partner of Qala (name means soup in Quechua)
SKENE CAST OF CHARACTERS Maggie Jochild 2004
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They entered singing an anonymous melody from 17th-century Perú, with text in Quechua (an indigenous language), walking deliberately, and finished on the small wooden stage.
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They entered singing an anonymous melody from 17th-century Perú, with text in Quechua (an indigenous language), walking deliberately, and finished on the small wooden stage.
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You’re going to have to give us all a lesson in Quechua … or is it Russian/Moldovan/Lao/some Spanish phrase I have forgotten??
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He was speaking Quechua, which is a language native to inhabitants of the mountains of Peru, thousands of miles south of Kentucky.
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"Pucara means 'shining' in a tongue called Quechua, which was the principal language of my ancestors who lived on the continent of South America."
Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980
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The Incas - The Incas, or sometimes known as the Quechua, living from A.D.
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Even if we put aside the ancient Quechua, which is mostly spoken in the rural Andes, it still may be challenging to find a
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July, 2000 corrector Andrew Rouner, The Electronic Text Center All Native American words have been tagged as "Quechua," though the author makes finer distinctions; not all foreign words have their language of origin indicated in the text, so in some cases, an educated guess was required to tag a word as Spanish or Quechuan. etextcenter@virginia. edu.
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fbharjo commented on the word Quechua
lengua general of Incan South America in the 16th, 17th and early 18th Centuries
December 5, 2010