The Greek that is translated as “tradition” in English is translated in these ways:

• Kekchí: “the old root-trunk” (in which the life of a people is likened to a tree)
• Central Tarahumara: “to live as the ancients did”
• North Alaskan Inupiatun: “sayings passed down from long-ago times”
• Navajo (Dinė): “what their fathers of old told them to follow”
• Toraja-Sa’dan: “the ordinance maintained by the forefathers”
• Tzeltal: “the word that has been kept from the ancients” (source for this and all above Bratcher / Nida)
• Gumuz: “the life of your fathers” (source: Loren Bliese)
• Obolo: “the deeds of the ground” (orọmijọn̄) (source: Enene Enene)
• Mairiasi: “the old things that are being held-onto” (source: Enggavoter 2004)
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: “handed-down customs” (source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)