Eduardo Kohn, in his extraordinary book, How Forests Think, Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human notes the creation of a new verb by the Quichua speakers of Ecuador: "riparana" which means "darse cuenta," to realize or to be aware. The verb is a Quichua transfiguration of the Spanish "reparar," to observe, sense and repair. As if awareness itself, the simple act of observing, has the power to heal.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/04/language-is-migrant
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