QUICH

Meaning of QUICH in English

(v. i.) To stir.

Webster's English dictionary. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

QUICH — ( v. i. ) To stir.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
QUICH — vi to stir.
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QUICH — also called Quich Maya, Mayan Indians living in the midwestern highlands of Guatemala. The Quich Maya had an advanced civilization …
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SANTA CRUZ DEL QUICH — town, northwestern Guatemala. It lies in the southwestern Sierra de Chuacs at an elevation of 6,631 feet (2,021 m) above …
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QUICH LANGUAGE — an American Indian language of the Mayan family, spoken in the western highlands of Guatemala. It is most closely related …
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MAYA — Group of Mesoamerican Indians who between AD 250 and 900 developed one of the Western Hemisphere's greatest civilizations. By AD …
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QUITCH — /kwich/ , n. See couch grass . Also, quitch grass . [ bef. 900; late ME quich, OE cwice; c. …
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PRE-COLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS — the aboriginal American Indian cultures that evolved in Meso-America (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western …
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TZUTUJIL — also spelled Zutuhil, or Tzutuhil, Mayan Indians of the midwestern highlands of Guatemala. The Tzutujil language is closely related to …
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TOTONICAPN — city, west-central Guatemala, at 8,200 feet (2,500 m) above sea level. One of Guatemala's largest cities, Totonicapn has a population …
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TEZCATLIPOCA — (Nahuatl: Smoking Mirror), god of the Great Bear constellation and of the night sky, one of the major deities of …
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TABASCO — state, southeastern Mexico, bounded on the northwest by the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, east by Campeche, …
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QUETZALTENANGO — formerly Quezaltenango, capital, Quetzaltenango department, southwestern Guatemala, 7,656 feet (2,334 m) above sea level near the foot of the Santa …
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POPOL VUH — Maya document, an invaluable source of knowledge of ancient Mayan mythology and culture. Written in Quich (a Guatemalan Mayan language) …
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NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS — arts of the aboriginal Americans, often called American Indians. The art itself is often referred to as Indian art. The …
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MOTAGUA RIVER — Spanish Ro Motagua, river in eastern Guatemala, rising in the central highlands near Chichicastenango, in southern Quich department. The Motagua …
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MENCH, RIGOBERTA — born 1959, Guatemala Rigoberta Mench, 1992. Guatemalan Indian-rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1992. Mench …
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MAYA LANGUAGES
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MAYA
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GUATEMALA, HISTORY OF — history of the area from colonial times to the present. The origin of the name Guatemala is Indian, but its …
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CHICHICASTENANGO — town, west-central Guatemala, 6,447 feet (1,965 m) above sea level. It is the market centre for many Quich Maya Indian …
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CENTRAL AMERICA, HISTORY OF
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CAKCHIQUEL LANGUAGE — member of the Quich group of Mayan languages, spoken in central Guatemala. Closely related to and sometimes considered simply a …
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CAKCHIQUEL — Mayan Indian people of the midwestern highlands of Guatemala, closely related linguistically and culturally to the neighbouring Quich and Tzutujil …
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BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG, CHARLES-TIENNE — born Sept. 8, 1814, Bourbourg, near Dunkirk, France died Jan. 8, 1874, Nice French missionary and ethnographer who specialized in …
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ALVARADO, PEDRO DE — born c. 1485, Badajoz, Castile died 1541, in or near Guadalajara, New Spain [now in Mexico] a conqueror of Mexico …
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