Etimologias Chile Site

From Mapudungun: chon (head) + chon (to fly). A sorcerer’s severed head with owl ears. The word’s true root is not anatomical. It is the sound of a secret leaving the body.

“Abuelo, this is absurd.”

He handed her his fountain pen, the same one that had written Etimologías Chile . etimologias chile

Luna closed the book. Outside, the Magellanic wind rattled the windows. She looked at her half-finished thesis on her laptop — “Diachronic Vowel Shifts in Post-Colonial Spanish” — and closed the lid. From Mapudungun: chon (head) + chon (to fly)