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The language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas
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quechua
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Indian people of Peru and surrounding regions, 1811, from Spanish, from Quechua kechua "plunderer, destroyer." Also the name of their language. Related: Quechuan .
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Quechua (/ˈkɛtʃᵊwə/, /ˈkɛtʃuːə/ or /ˈkɛtʃwɑː/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈketʃwa]) is a mountain sports brand founded in 1997 in Domancy , France , producing hiking , trail running , adventure racing , climbing and mountaineering apparel and equipment and ...
Usage examples of quechua.
At home I was an anthropologist, had done work among the modern Quechua, then went into the archaeology of the region.
They are Quechua and Aymara Indians and they are committed to living as their ancestors did.
It was the Quechua who took exception to the visitor, fishing in their river even though they never used that part of it.
The demand came in understandable Quechua, though with an intonation quite different from the language Mike had learned.
From beyond translucent partitions voices drifted, speaking Quechua, sometimes faintly echoing as if they came from really cavernous regions.
Mike growled in Quechua to his troops, and saw to his relief that they remembered what the command meant.
Said they were valuable antiques, made by the Quechua Indians up in the mountains of Bolivia, the powder nothing to do with him and probably just lime put there by the Indians to fill the hollow interior and make the sticks heavier and more solid.
Tutanji said, using a Quechua word for white men who came into the rain forest and killed Indians to extract their fat.
Nearby was a scattered settlement of houses outside which stood small, dark-skinned Quechua Indians dressed in ponchos, balaclavas and colourful woollen hats.
There are many subtleties to Quechua and this word means conflict, confrontations between people, villages or nations.
Indian one, Quechua, though of so peculiar a dialect that Ruiz could hardly understand a quarter of what he said.
Quechua, rather than the Tucana or Jibaran of our Brazilian Indians, was not strange, because many of the Bolivian Indians speak Quechua, and the boy was discovered within fifty miles of Bolivia, even if on the wrong side of the mountains.
He also knew I am something of an expert in Old Quechua and in the history of the Incan Empire and the fate of its peoples after their conquest by the Spanish conquistador Pizarro.
There was a quick murmuring in Quechua among the gayer-clad folk, some sounding alarmed, others reassuring them.