Mistimanchachi (Quechua)

A light drizzle. This literally means “something that frightens Spanish-speaking urban people.” The people who speak Quechua are indigenous to the mountains of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, and are mostly rural. When a light drizzle starts, they just keep planting potatoes or herding sheep or walking wherever they are going, but the townspeople–mestizos–run for shelter.

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