The story
- Classical Quechua · derived frominka“emperor”
- Spanish · borrowed frominca
- English todayInca
Borrowed from Spanish inca, from Classical Quechua inka (“emperor”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
inca
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Spanish inca ← Classical Quechua inka