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tamb'or
a word from vocabulary
Q'eqchi'
by
Søren Wichmann
and
Kerry Hull
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Word form
tamb'or
LWT meaning(s)
the drum
Word meaning
tambor
Word source
Sam Juárez et al. (1997)
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
Post-Conquest Q’eqchi’ [34] (1529–2007)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
1. clearly borrowed
Comments
There were indigenous drums prior to contact, but of a different kind: whole, cut out in wood, not using the hide of an animal
Source words
tambor
'drum'
Spanish
Effect
Insertion
Salience
Present only since contact
Contact situation
Colonization [34]
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