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ee-troh-fill-MOHN-hen
The tangible and intangible elements of the diversity of life. Everything visible and invisible that constitutes the living world — organisms, processes, spirits, relationships — held in a single word.
Etymology
Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people of Chile, from the region of Lake Budi. A concept that resists translation precisely because English separates the material from the immaterial.
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