Akademik

Kechua

noun

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

• Syn: ↑Quechua

• Derivationally related forms: ↑Kechuan, ↑Quechuan (for: ↑Quechua)

• Hypernyms: ↑South American Indian

• Hyponyms: ↑Inca, ↑Inka, ↑Incan

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

• Syn: ↑Quechua

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑community

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

• Syn: ↑Quechua, ↑Quechuan, ↑Quechuan language, ↑Kechuan

• Derivationally related forms: ↑Kechuan (for: ↑Kechuan), ↑Quechuan (for: ↑Quechua)

• Hypernyms: ↑Amerind, ↑Amerindian language, ↑American-Indian language, ↑American Indian, ↑Indian

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Usage: usually capitalized

variant of quechua

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/kech"wah, -weuh/, n., pl. Kechuas, (esp. collectively) Kechua.

Quechua.

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Kechua

var. Quechua.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.