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Puma

3 stages from Quechua to English.

Today it means a large wild cat native to the Americas, also called a cougar or mountain lion

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Quechua · pre-1500s

"puma, mountain lion"

the Quechua name for the mountain lion

Spanish · 1500s

adopted after Spanish contact with the Andes

English · 1700s

"the large wild cat of the Americas"

borrowed directly from Spanish

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