Associations to the word «Quechua»

Wiktionary

QUECHUA, 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.
QUECHUA, proper noun. The language spoken by these people.

Dictionary definition

QUECHUA, noun. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire.
QUECHUA, noun. A community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire.
QUECHUA, noun. The language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky