Etimologias Chile [upd] «High Speed»

From Mapudungun: co (water) + weco (demon or place of trouble). Literally: “the water that deceives.”

And I believe: Chile comes from the sound a wave makes when it realizes it has crossed the entire Pacific just to break against a cliff that will not move. etimologias chile

She remembered. She had never told anyone else. From Mapudungun: co (water) + weco (demon or

“Is it?” He poured her a glass of pipeño . “When you were five, you told me you heard your dead grandmother’s voice in the nothofagus forest. You said the trees were hablando etimologías . Speaking the first language.” She had never told anyone else

Old Don Evaristo had been the keeper of the Librería La Cordillera for forty years. The shop, wedged between a completo stand and a fading mural of Violeta Parra, smelled of mildew, tobacco, and patience. But his true treasure was not a book for sale.

Origin unknown. Some say from a Mapudungun word for “where the land ends.” Others from a Quechua word for “cold.” Others from the name of a cacique called Tili. But I, Evaristo, have walked from the desert to the strait. I have listened to the stones of Rapa Nui and the moss of Tiera del Fuego.