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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

canchishal / canshishal

English translation:

feather acacia forest / wood / grove

Added to glossary by Charles Davis
Apr 11, 2013 02:11
11 yrs ago
Spanish term

canchishal/canchishales

Spanish to English Social Sciences Linguistics Chiapas, Mexico
This word appears in italics in a Spanish text, suggesting to me it's a borrowed word (from Tzeltal?). There are many Mayanisms in this book. The entire sentence reads:

«Pero alguien dijo hace rato que entre los canchishales quedan algunos muertos, abandonados a las mandíbulas de los perros.»
Proposed translations (English)
4 feather acacia forest / wood / grove
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Apr 16, 2013 05:56: Charles Davis Created KOG entry

Discussion

Charles Davis Apr 11, 2013:
Finding the second reference was a stroke of luck; it seems to be the only source on the web that identifies this plant.

The standard common name for Acacia pennatula is tepame. It's a tree up to 8 m high and the leaves are apparently used in traditional Mexican medicine, so it makes sense for it to have an Amerindian name.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_pennatula
offset (asker) Apr 11, 2013:
Acacia plants Thanks, Charles. Efraín Bartolomé is the author I'm working on, as it happens. («Ocosingo», however, not «El ser que somos».) So, your first source was the only placed I'd seen the word till you sent the second and third links. Very grateful for these.

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feather acacia forest / wood / grove

"Canchishal" is apparently a wood or forest of "canchish" or "chanshish", a type of tree. The only mention of the word that I've found on the Internet is in a poem by Efraín Bartolomé:

"Existía el Canchishal: cerradísimo bosque de canchish bordeando el Chamenhá"
http://books.google.es/books?id=fPBD81p60rIC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA...

"Canshish" is identified here as Acacia pennatula:
http://www.sidalc.net/cgi-bin/wxis.exe/?IsisScript=TESISAN.x...

And this species seems to be known as feather acacia in English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acacia_species
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