Etymology

Gran Chaco

Today it means: A sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul. Full definition →

Spanish Gran Chaco ← Quechua Hatun Chaku
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The story

  1. Quechua · derived fromHatun Chaku
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromGran Chaco
  3. English todayGran Chaco

Borrowed from Paraguayan Spanish Gran Chaco, from Spanish gran (“large; great; grand”) + Spanish chaco (“hunting ground”), a calque of Quechua Hatun Chaku.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.