Kamsit: 
Tsbajo. Perhaps an animal? (Cf. conejo below). 
Tsbajusha. -shais a common suffix, especially for plant 
names. 
Tsbajtéma. tema: “small”, 
Tsbajoyiyu. Ct. yuyu below. 
Beshana. Reters both to the plant and to the very 
common prepared food (cf. below) containing either 
P. peruviana var. sapida or Brassica oleracea var. 
acephala. The latter plant is known as besha and 
beshatema (diminutive). 
Inga: 
Huacamiyu. Huaca: “grave, temple’: muyu: ‘to 
surround’, cf. also yuyu. 
Camayuyu. Perhaps a variant of canayuyu, listed by 
Pupiales (1958) as “‘aquatic vegetable.” Cama may 
be Spanish ‘bed’. 
Vuyu. Perhaps applied to any edible greens. Las 
Corts (1946) gives ‘tender’ for the variant spelling 
lludlu, an apt term tor edible leaves. 
Macamoy. (0 
Spanish: 
Conejo. “Rabbit, in reference to a small mammal 
which is said to hide in the thick growth of P. 
peruviana. 
Tsbajusha and huacamiuyu are the two most commonly 
heard terms for either Philoglossa peruciana or var. 
sapida. The derivation of tsbajushad remains uncertain. 
Auacamiyu carries the literal implication of an edible 
plant growing in graveyards. This accords well with the 
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