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Definition of Quechua

1. Noun. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire.

2. Noun. A community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire.

3. Noun. The language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas.

Definition of Quechua

1. Proper 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. ¹

2. Proper noun. The language spoken by these people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quechua

Quatrefages de Breau Quebec Quebec Bridge Quebec City Quebec Sign Language Quebecer Quebecers Quebecism Quebecker Quebeckers

Quebecois Quebracho crested tinamou Quebracho crested tinamous Quechan Quechua Quechuan Quechuan language Queckenstedt Queckenstedt's test Queckenstedt-Stookey test

Queen's Counsel Queen's English Queen Anne Queen Anne's Bounty Queen Anne's lace Queen Charlotte Islands Queen Charlotte Sound

Literary usage of Quechua

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"Re: Harrington's work on the Hokan nature of quechua; Pima-Papago. [4017(C19)] 4691. ... Includes: grammatical sketch of quechua; very brief sketch of ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1898)
"This is certainly the quechua 1 Anthropologie der Naturvölker, Bd. iii, pp. 432, 433. ... Martius thought it a hybrid of quechua and Tupi. ..."

3. The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker (1900)
"The quechua Linguistic Family is one of the reaching of South America. The quechua dialects ar spoken to-day on the coast, and along the chain of the from ..."

4. The Peccary--with Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World by R. A. Donkin (1985)
"The Canelo adopted quechua from the close of the sixteenth century. ... 53 (quechua, collared peccary). 140 Paz Soldán, 1862: pp. 532, 686. ..."

5. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"750). Buschmann likewise identified the word galpón = great hall or house. He also expressed the opinion that "the quechua word pampa resembles the Mexican ..."

6. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations: A Comparative by Zelia Nuttall (1901)
"Buschmann likewise identified the word galpón — great hall or house. He also expressed the opinion that "the quechua word /«///i/«1 resembles the Mexican ..."

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