Katherine Reece Wrote:
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> While reading, "An Inca Account of the Conquest of
> Peru" by Titu Cusi Yupanqui translated by Ralph
> Bauer; I found a reference in the introduction
> that said the word chicha was brought in by the
> Spanish from the Caribbean. At wiki there's an
> entry under Chicha, that says:
Quote:
> However, according to Luis Goatherd it comes from
> the Nahuatl word chichiatl, which means "fermented
> water"; the verb chicha meaning "to sour a drink"
> and the postfix -atl meaning water.
>
> I can't find a reference for Louis Goatherd at
> wiki, and other websites have just copied and
> pasted the above without any more information. I
> also don't find any reference of Louis Goatherd in
> the notes or biblography of the Bauer book. Is
> anyone familiar with Louis Goatherd?

This must be the relevant Wiki page ... but this is the only non-Chicha-related reference I've been able to find to anyone named Luis Goatherd.

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