Inca

Borrowed from Spanish inca, from Classical Quechua inka (“emperor”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋkə/

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• Homophone: inker (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə

Inca (plural Incas or Inca)

1. 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.
   • 2007 June 24, Arthur Lubow, “The Possessed”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     To honor the spirits that take form as mountains, the Inca stoneworkers carved rock outcrops to replicate their shapes.

   • 2010 August 16, Simon Romero, “High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Archaeologists say the Incas, brought down by the Spanish conquest, used khipus – strands of woolen cords made from the hair of animals like llamas or alpacas – as an alternative to writing.

• NIAC, Naic, Cain, -cain-, cinA, Nica, cain, NACI, inca

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈiŋ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈiŋ.ka]

Inca ?

1. a city on the Mallorca island, Balearic Islands, Spain

• inquer

Borrowed from Spanish inca, from Quechua Inka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋ.kaː/

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• Hyphenation: In‧ca

Inca m or f (plural Inca's)

1. Inca (member of a Quechuan people)

• incalelie
• Incarijk
• Incastad
• Incatempel
• Incavolk

Inca m (genitive Incae); first declension

1. (New Latin) an Inca
   • (Can we date this quote?), In Archivos/Arquivos do Instituto de Pesquisas Agronomicas (GBS):

     Ex genere forsan Incarum et Aztecarum, qui etiam a pristina prolapsi erant humanitate, cum eis obviam ierunt Hispanici Domitores.

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   • 1815, Joannis Severinus Vaterus (Johann Severin Vater), Linguarum totius orbis Index alphabeticus, quarum Grammaticae, Lexica, collectiones vocabulorum recensentur, patria significatur, historia adumbratur (Litteratur der Grammatiken, Lexica und Wörtersammlungen aller Sprachen der Erde nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Sprachen, mit einer gedrängten Uebersicht des Vaterlandes, der Schicksale und Verwandtschaft derselben), Berlin, p. 196:

     Lingua Peruviae propriae ab Incis per totum eorum imperium propagata, cuius cum aliis linguis nexum aliquem habuit, cum Aimara cognationem.

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First-declension noun.

Inca

1. alternative form of Inka