verb/maput͡ʃiˈθaɾ/
to indigenize in the style of the Mapuche people
“Dice la leyenda que un hombre vino de la mítica Araucanía a través de las montañas para mapuchizar la llanura con una mujer de más lejos, de las rías gallegas o de las costas sicilianas.” — A legend says that a man came from the mythical Araucanía through the mountains to Mapuchize the plain with a woman from further away, from the Galician estuaries or from the Sicilian coasts.
Related: mapuchización
Etymology tree Mapudungun Mapucebor. Spanish mapuche Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōlbor. Old Spanish -izar Spanish -izar Spanish mapuchizar From mapuche + -izar.