Kuntur
/ˈkun.tʊr/noun
A Quechua word for a condor.
Did you know?In Andean cosmology, the condor is tied to the upper world (hanan pacha), so the word carries more than zoology — it sits inside a sacred three-world universe.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Quechuan
PQ
*kuntur
“condor”
Classical Quechua
Quechua
kuntur
“condor”
Colonial Spanish
Spanish
cóndor
“condor”
Modern English
English
condor
“a large South American vulture”