Etymograph

English

Mapuche

Mapuche comes from Mapudungun Mapuce ‘Of, from, or pertaining to the Mapuche’.

  1. MapudungunmodernMapuce‘Of, from, or pertaining to the Mapuche’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2023Mapuche

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. MapudungunmodernMapuce‘Of, from, or pertaining to the Mapuche’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2023Mapuche

Earliest quotation: 2023, John Bartlett, Teenage Rapper, Rooted in Mapuche Identity, Roars for Indige: “Then Millaray Jara Collio, or MC Millaray as the…”

Today it means

name An indigenous group of inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina.

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

Etymograph / Mapudungun Mapuce / Mapuche