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THE GRAPH.
Find a modern word—or search sideways through reconstructed roots, historical forms, meanings, languages, scholars, sources, claims, disputes, and witnesses.
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
alpaca
the domesticated camelid; its fiber or cloth
- DATE
- 1747–today
- MATCH
- exact historical form
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Spanish / Indo-European
alpaca
alpaca; its hair or cloth
- DATE
- colonial and modern Spanish
- MATCH
- exact historical form
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Aymara / Aymaran
allphaqa
alpaca
- DATE
- Aymara historical and modern record
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
resolvedestablishedexact word
Do allpaqa, all-paka, and allphaqa imply competing origins?
No. The references use different editorial and official spellings for the Aymara animal word while agreeing on Aymara ancestry.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 10GRADE Aexact ranked word
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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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
051
FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
06
SEARCH IS DISCOVERY, NOT PROOF
EVERY RESULT OPENS A PERMANENT EVIDENCE RECORD.
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