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llamaEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Quechua llamabor. Spanish llamabor. English llama Borrowed from Spanish llama, borrowed from Quechua llama.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗llamaEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Sino-Tibetan Tibetan བླ (bla) Tibetan མ (ma) Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma)bor. English llama Borrowed from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
llama
the South American camelid
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- 1600–today
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- exact historical form
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Spanish / Indo-European
llama
llama; Andean camelid
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- colonial and modern Spanish
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- exact historical form
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Quechua source (variety unspecified) / Quechuan
llama
llama; Lama glama
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- Quechua historical and modern record
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- exact historical form
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
resolvedestablishedexact word
Are animal llama and Spanish llama “flame” the same word?
No. The animal word is Quechua through Spanish; the fire homonym is a separate Spanish entry from Latin flamma.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 64GRADE Aexact ranked word
Two identical Spanish spellings hide unrelated histories.
Animal llama is Quechua through Spanish; llama “flame” is a separate Latin descendant.
RANK 10GRADE Aranked reveal
Andean neighbors need not be linguistic cousins.
Alpaca comes from Aymara while llama comes from Quechua: the words travel through Spanish from different families.
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historical dictionary8 CLAIM LINKS
Llama — Word History
Merriam-Webster Editors / 2026
title prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗historical dictionary4 CLAIM LINKS
Llama — Diccionario de la lengua española
Real Academia Española and ASALE Editors / 2026
title prefixAUDIT EVERY USE ↗institutional vocabulary3 CLAIM LINKS
Yachachinapaq shimikuna — chawpin qichwa: Vocabulario pedagógico quechua central
Ministerio de Educación del Perú / 2020
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