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Inca

/ˈɪŋkə/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest.
  2. Any of several species of hummingbirds in the genus Coeligena

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from Spanish inca, from Classical Quechua inka (“emperor”).

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