Note 185-3 — Chapter VI
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M. De Charency, in the Revue Américaine, ii. p. 317. Tupa it may be observed means in Quichua, lord, or royal. Father Holguin gives as an example â tupa Dios, O Lord God (Vocabulario Quichua, p. 348: Ciudad de los Reyes, 1608). In the Quiché dialects tepeu is one of the common appellations of divinity and is also translated lord or ruler. We are not yet sufficiently advanced in the study of American philology to draw any inference from these resemblances, but they should not be overlooked.