queltehue
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]queltehue (plural queltehues)
- (South America) Synonym of southern lapwing
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]queltehue m (plural queltehues)
- lapwing
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 243:
- Para conseguir el amor de una persona, se entierra en el sitio en que ésta ha orinado, el cuernecillo que tiene en las alas el queltehue.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “queltehue”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- en:Plovers and lapwings
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ewe
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- es:Plovers and lapwings