Quechua

See also: quechua and quéchua

English

Etymology

Spanish, from Quechua qhichwa (literally temperate valley).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɛtʃwə/, /ˈkɛtʃəwə/
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Noun

Quechua (plural Quechuas or Quechua)

  1. A member of one of several South American ethnic groups that spans Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, northern Chile, and in Ecuador and southern Colombia.
    • 1972, Lytle Robinson, chapter 5, in Edgar Cayceʼs Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man, USA: Berkley Publishing Corporation, page 105:
      The Quechuas, a tribe of the Inca people, were Indians of the red race and with an appearance and trait which is distinctly American. “They are”, says Victor W. Von Hagen in his book, Realm of the Incas, “of medium height, and inclined to be thickset, with large hands, small wrists, a disproportionately large chest (developed for breathing at high altitudes), well-developed legs, and wide-spreading feet. They are broad-headed, with high cheekbones, prominent aquiline noses, and small, almond-shaped eyes.” There are still five million of them in the Andes.

Proper noun

Quechua

  1. The language spoken by these people.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • Inca
  • Quichua
  • Wiktionary's coverage of Quechua terms
  • Appendix:Quechua Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Quechua

Further reading

  • ISO 639-1 code qu, ISO 639-3 code que. It is a family of related languages. The individual ones are:

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Quechua n

  1. Quechua (language)
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