Etymograph

English

Gran Chaco

Gran Chaco comes from Spanish Gran Chaco.

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentGran Chaco
  2. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentGran Chaco
  2. Englishtodaysame form

Formed from gran ‘large’ + chaco ‘hunting ground’

Quechua chacú

Spanish Chaco

English chaco

Every English word from Spanish Gran Chaco

Today it means

name A sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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