# postmodernism, OTism, continent-ism *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Oct 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Carlos Martinho *29 Oct 1999, 13:12* > My wife is Brazilian (which contains a lot of words > from amerindian > languages) but she just look at me blankly when ia > sked her about Apo, Apu, > apu-punchai or any similar words for 'leader'. One > point to the SE asia > theory! Well... I'm Brazilian, also. Amerindians from Brazil (tupi, guarani, caiapo, txucarramae, etc) are not the same -- language-wise -- with the Peruvian/ Andean Incas, who spoke quechua. "Apu-Punchau" sounds a lot like quechua (see, for instance, the name of the historical site -- "Macchu-Pichu", "old mountain", or the native leader Tupac Amaru). And, by the way, the Typhon mountains seem a lot like the Andes, IMO. BTW: if I'm not mistaken, "p’unchau" means "day" or "time" in quechua. And "apuc" means "chief". "Pampa" is also a quecha word. My better guess is that Apu Punchau is somewhat related with the Incans. Ergo, the Commonwealth is South American. ---