Etymology

Mapudungun

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Today it means: A language isolate spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people. Full definition →

Mapudungun mapu(n)
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  1. Mapudungun · derived frommapu(n)“earth, land”
  2. English todayMapudungun

From Mapudungun mapu(n) (“earth, land”) + dungun (“speak, speech”).

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