Etymology

pampas

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Today it means: The extensive plains of South America south of the Amazon. Full definition →

Spanish pampa ← Quechua pampa
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The story

  1. Quechua · derived frompampa“land, ground”
  2. Spanish · derived frompampa
  3. English todaypampas

From (plural of) American Spanish pampa, from Quechua pampa (“land, ground”).

Words from the same roots

Spanishpampa all →

pampero

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.