Culture Shock! Bolivia - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

236 CultureShock! Bolivia

Chiji (Aym, Que) Grass

Cunasa sutimaja (Aym) What’s your name?

Huaironco (Que)

Originally ‘bumble bee,’

more frequently used

as a metaphor meaning

indecisive or beating

around the bush

Ima sutiqui (Que) What’s your name?

Imilla (Aym) Girl

Inti (Aym, Que)

Sun (used in names

of businesses and

organisations)

Jaccha (Aym) Big

Janihua (Aym)

Literally ‘no,’ metaphor is

‘stubborn’

Juntucha (Aym) The leftovers

Khencha (Que) Jinx

Llokalla (Aym, Que) Boy, Indian

Puchu (Aym, Que) Leftover

Sullu (Aym, Que)

Literally ‘abortion,’

metaphor is ‘malnourished’

Ta t a (Que) Father, old man

Tatai (Que) My father

Ta y a (Aym) Cold

Ttanta (Aym, Que) Bread

Tucsa (Aym) Stinking

Yapa (Que, Aym)

This is equivalent to the

13th piece of bread in a

bakers dozen, the bonus

that a steady customer

receives. La yapa is

remarkably similar to

the Cajun word Lagniape,

which means the same

thing.