English
Quechua
Quechua comes from Quechua qichwa ‘temperate area, sierra valley, valley’, and goes back to qwe-pro *qiĉwa.
- qwe-proprehistoric (reconstructed)*qiĉwa‘temperate area, valley’reconstructed
- Quechuamodernqichwaas qhichwa‘temperate area, sierra valley, valley’literally ‘temperate valley’
- Englishearliest quotation 1972Quechua
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- qwe-proprehistoric (reconstructed)*qiĉwa‘temperate area, valley’reconstructed
- Quechuamodernqichwaas qhichwa‘temperate area, sierra valley, valley’literally ‘temperate valley’
- Englishearliest quotation 1972Quechua
Earliest quotation: 1972, Lytle Robinson, USA: Berkley Publishing Corporation: “The Quechuas, a tribe of the Inca people, were…”
Every English word from qwe-pro *qiĉwa
Today it means
noun A member of one of several South American ethnic groups that spans Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, northern Chile, and in Ecuador and southern Colombia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / qwe-pro *qiĉwa / Quechua