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machi (pluralmachis)

1. Atraditionalhealer andreligiousleader in theMapucheculture ofChile andArgentina.
   • 2015 August 19, Pascale Bonnefoy, “Alongside a Doctor’s Care, a Dose of Traditional Healing”, inNew York Times‎^[1]:

     Many Mapuche women in La Pintana often went without health care because they did not trust conventional Western medicine or feared discrimination in public health clinics, and traveling hundreds of miles to see amachi in their communities of origin was impractical.

• hachi machi

• Chaim,Micah

machi m (invariable)

1. alternative spelling ofmaki

machi

1. Rōmaji transcription ofまち

Borrowed fromRomanimakhiv.

a machi (third-person singular presentmachește,past participlemachit) 4th conjugation

1. (slang) toget drunk

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡ʃi/[ˈma.t͡ʃi]
• Rhymes:-atʃi
• Syllabification:ma‧chi

machi m orf (pluralmachis)

1. machi (Mapuche traditional healer)
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes,Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page35:

     Dicen algunos entendidos en asuntos de brujería, que el territorio de la República está dividido en tres cantones o estados independientes, el del Norte, el del Centro y el del Sur, gobernada cada uno de ellos por unMachi, poderoso hechicero de vastísima ciencia, que ejercita su autoridad despótica sobre todos los Brujos de la región que le está sometida.

     Some experts in witchcraft say that the territory of the Republic is divided into three independent regions or states, that of the North, the Center, and the South, each of them governed by amachi, a powerful sorceror of extremely vast knowledge, who exercises their despotic authority over all witches in the region under their control.

• “machi”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed fromEnglishmarch.

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machi classIX (pluralmachi classX)

1. march(formal, rhythmic way of walking)

Cognate withMunseemáachiiw(“he goes home”). Likely cognate withMassachusettmonchu(“he goes”),Mohegan-Pequotmôci(“he goes away, heads off”).(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

machi (VAI (animate-subjectintransitive),third plural indicativemachiyok)

1. he/shegoes home

• mòchalao

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “machi”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors,The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

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