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)